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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the junior officers only one is a university athlete; the other three are not even candidates for the major teams. The sophomore leaders do not include a letter-winner...
...suggestion contained in The Mail has been found fallacious in practice, and is peculiarly inapplicable to Harvard. The occasional letter is probably perused more readily than the ever-present editorial; but the substitution of editorial columns by a popular forum was, to mention only the one instance of The Traveler, unsatisfactory, from the fundamental cause that no individual opinion carries the prestige of collective opinions, backed by the policy of a newspaper. Furthermore, the editors are automatically in a position to have more information about University affairs than does the average undergraduate, and therefore to interpret them, if not more...
...attach to this note a significance of magnitude as showing Mr. Hadden's tolerant attitude with regard to criticism. I had written TIME a caustic letter in regard to an item about Mr. Levine's evolutions in his lone flight from Paris to London. This note was his courteous reply...
...With proper pomp Michael MacWhite presented himself at the White House one afternoon last week and said he was King George's new Minister from the Irish Free State. President Hoover, in U. S. diplomatic uniform,* received him in the Blue Room. Offering his letter of credence Minister MacWhite said: "My government has entrusted to me the very agreeable mission of conveying to you their most sincere good wishes for the continued and increasing prosperity of the great people whose destinies are committed to your care." Replied President Hoover: "I will ask you to convey to your Government...
August in Washington, Mr. Chief Justice replied with a letter equally polite. He admitted his departure from the text, but did not think it invalidated the oath. "When I was sworn in as President by Chief Justice Fuller, he made a similar slip," Mr. Taft recalled, "but in those days when there was no radio, it was observed only in the Senate chamber where I took the oath. . . . You are mistaken in your report of what I did say. What I said was 'preserve, maintain and protect. . . . You may attribute the variation to the defect...