Word: lese
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time this year. Among them is the name of Lou Henry Hoover who received a degree from Swarthmore. You have failed to state that the same institution, at the same time, conferred a degree on Marion Edwards Park! President of Bryn Mawr. I infer that it is not accounted "lese majeste" to mention the President of Bryn Mawr College in the same class with the wife of the President of the United States...
...plan of requiring a written report only once in two weeks means an absolute reduction in the number of reports required during the half-year. The Faculty hopes that the quality of reports will be improved under this schedule and that the report work will interfere lese with the daily class-room work. Heretofore the professors in charge of the first-year courses have noted that class preparation has suffered on days on which reports were...
...sophisticates of the metropolis for their would-be-sophisticate fellow townsfolk)last week published an article titled "The First Lady" purporting to be an intimate portrait of Mrs. Coolidge, by one Paul A. Burns. Carefully skirting the shoals of libel, his thesis ended very neatly in the port of Lese Majest...
...offense of lese-majesty has evidently become a felony in some parts of America's far-flung empire. Antonio D. Pagua, Councilman-elect of Manila, was convicted yesterday and sentenced to four months' imprisonment on a charge of having insulted Leonard Wood, the present governor-general of the Philippines. The culprit's offence had consisted of referring to the general in a recent political campaign as an "autocrat" and a "usurper of Philippine autonomy",--terms not altogether indefensible in view of the general's well-known partiality for military methods...
...Budapest, Hungarian capital, the Supreme Court began to hear the suit over Count Karolyi's property, confiscated by order of two lower courts on the grounds of high treason and lese-majest...