Word: kinley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Buffalo robbers, four masked bandits stalked in upon a party at the Champaign, Ill. home of Metalman Henry H. Harris. At first mistaken for jokesters, they lined up 100 celebrating socialites, stripped them of $50,000 worth of jewelry and cash. Among the divested guests were Dr. David Kinley, president of the University of Illinois, and his daughter...
Exposition visitors who chanced to be in Oklahoma City later in the week watched two figures, protected by metal shields and a heavy barrage of water, start to work their way toward the centre of an oil fire. They were Mack and Fred Kinley, famed for their fire-fighting technique. After two days of slow progress, the Kinleys succeeded in removing the twisted debris of the derrick and in placing a gelatin bomb near the well's flame-spouting mouth. The same moment that an electric contact ignited the bomb a special battery of boilers threw live steam...
...vote for organized bawdy houses of the white slave trade. . . . Still awaiting the Smith reply, voters were reminded that Editor White in a magazine piece which he sold two years ago said: "Smith has exactly the same faults and virtues as marked Jackson and Lincoln. . . . Because Cleveland, Mc-Kinley, Roosevelt and Coolidge knew the game-the dirty game if you will-they avoided many pitfalls and were able to walk with the children of light much further than they would have walked had they not learned much from the angels of darkness. . .." "Smith took orders from Tammany until...
...England by birth and outlook, familiar with the spirit and life of the West and its educational ideals, he has the point of view, vision, the culture, demanded by Amherst's great history." ? President David Kinley, University of Illinois...
...charge of "rote learning" strikes an actual evil. The growth of universities has outstripped the science of pedagogy. And to combat the wrong, Dr. Penniman and Dr. Kinley invoke opposite methods. The "dynamic education", championed by the Pennsylvania President would impart to the students the inspiration nearest at hand, namely, the current industrial and social crusades, the drama which is being so unsystematically waged throughout the world. To ask the student to take his mental intoxicants from modern turmoil is, however, hurrying his ultimate fate. Allow him first to realize that education is not merely supplementary to life but preparatory...