Word: leste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lest I be sued for libel I will admit that the rules committee, whoever they may be, and football men in general, have surpassing intelligence, except in football. For them their football world is flat and they want it flat
...close and so real. To the pessimist there can be little hope; to the optimists, however, will occur the thought that the Union will become still more popular hereafter, if only with curious guests. And pessimist or optimist, each one of us remains in fear and trembling lest tomorrow's "Tribune" report that some evil has overtaken Princeton, or perhaps Yale...
...experience of years and the cool impartiality of the record alike lead to the conclusion that at Harvard there is a valuable freedom from self-consciousness rather to be envied than decried. Too many undergraduate bodies--and too many persons long outside the academic enclosure--are so keenly concerned lest somebody else think lightly of their actions, that they neglect action for stodgy speculation. Before now, Harvard has had good ideas which she was not afraid to put in practice. NEW YORK EVENING...
According to the Leonard Wood National Committee, 9 of the delegates so far chosen to attend the Republican National Convention at Chicago in June are pledged to Leonard Wood and at lest 76 of the other delegates so far elected are favorable to his nomination. This will give him a total of 155 votes now and the only other candidate who has any pledged delegates is Gov. Lowden, to whom 4 are pledged from Virginia. The total number of delegates chosen so far is 188. Today, the Kansas State Convention will be held for the purpose of choosing 20 delegates...
...certain: the old order is no longer able adequately to cope with modern conditions. Conservatives and liberals alike should unite to effect the reform which is obviously so necessary. When reform becomes the instrument of political preservation, even the most conservative must see the advantage of altering old traditions, lest the traditions themselves, no longer useful in the race of progress, fall by the way and perish...