Word: jeffersons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hart was speaking against a bill sponsored by William H. O'Brien to bar from Massachusetts schools histories and other books alleged to contain anti-American propaganda Yesterday's hearing centred about the contention of O'Brien that certain of Professor Hart's textbooks contain uncomplimentary references to Thomas Jefferson...
...spectacular recovery of three-quarters of a lap by R. H. Kobes '26 in the University medley relay race was the feature of the meet. L. L. Robb '25, still stiff from football injuries, got away to a poor start, and when he yielded the baton to Jefferson Fletcher '26 his opponent had a lead of a quarter of a lap. A slight loss of ground by Fletcher was recovered by B. R. Cutcheon '25, but when Kobes took the track the Tech man was still well in the lead. It was not many seconds, however, before the Crimson runner...
...with departures of one sort and another from all the old true American ideas and ideals that it has lost for the time being the confidence of the country, which it had enjoyed so long as it was true to its time-honored principles and the leadership of Thomas Jefferson and Grover Cleveland...
Finally to annihilate Mr. Barton in this friendly argument, Editor Swope closed with the adduction of Thomas Jefferson's remark that, if it were left to him to decide "whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I would not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter...
...Gentlemen: In your issue of Dec. 1, you have a disparaging reference to Charles Bellini, the first professor of modern languages in the College of William and Mary. The writer of the item gives the impression that Bellini was one of the vine dressers who accompanied Mazzei, under Jefferson's encouragement, to Albemarle County, Virginia, in 1775; and that after his failure to develop a successful vineyard, Jefferson raised him from the rank of laborer in a vineyard to the position of professor of modern languages in the college of William and Mary. Carlo Bellini was a clerk...