Word: jeffersons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fight." After listing the usual assets which President Coolidge might have in a third term campaign, Mr. Kent expanded on the negative arguments: "Should he get another [term], he will have been President two years longer than any other man in our history. The limitation that Washington and Jefferson regarded as wise and to which Grant and Roosevelt yielded as final is to be broken for Coolidge? It does not seem sane. Second, the agrarian revolt in the great Republican States in the West is real. . . . "A third argument is that there is in the field a Presidential candidate inherently...
Professor R. F. field '11 will held a physical colloquium in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory Room 3 at 5 o'clock this afternoon...
This system cannot be considered sound unless one admits its parallel. Suppose the training of the mind depended financially on the drawing power of a few members of the faculty in their lectures. Suppose the tutorial system. Widener Library and Jefferson Laboratory depended for their existence on the financial returns from three or four Billy Sundays lecturing in Mechanics Hall and the New York Hippedrome on government, literature, and science at five dollars admission. It would be laughable of course but it is no more illogical and wrong than to make the development of bodily health depend upon a similar...
Seldom has a single man achieved such a large reform. Others have tried to do this very thing, notably Thomas Jefferson in his plans for the University of Virgiuia, but Charles William Eliot was the first who succeeded...
After his graduation from Princeton in 1771 he supported the popular cause during the Revolution, in his prose and poetry engaging at the same time in his near-farming adventures. In 1790 Thomas Jefferson, then Secretary of State, appointed him translator to the State Department. At the same time he took over the editorship of the "National Gazette", through the medium of which he violently opposed Alexander Hamilton and the Federalists...