Word: levelers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protection of Harvard Indifference. It feels that pep meetings and other stupid exhibitions are more suited to colleges whose pinciple claim to glory is football excellence. Harvard need not imitate her inferiors. Let us not revert to the silliness of a past era nor descend to the level of the jerkwater. Let us remain gentlemen, and let Harvard remain a place above such callowness." This statement was subscribed to by a committee of 12 students. The students were: John L. Burling '34, Thomas Marvell '35, David L. Krupsaw '34, Herbert E. Robbins '35, Just Lunning 2G, Harold S. Saxe...
...foregoing statements are not only false, but like half-truths are infinitely more harmful than if they were barefaced shameless falsehoods. They are beneath the level and dignity of any high-class journal or publication. Your gullibility in swallowing these accusations, hook, line and sinker, is unthinkable. I cannot understand how any self-respecting reporter, however careless or incompetent, could fail to ascertain the facts before putting such a story in print. It appears that this article must have been inspired from other sources, as it would be difficult to impute to your publication such a total absence...
Retail Stores must be on the street level, on a main thoroughfare in a business centre, not less than 700 ft. apart (1.500 ft. apart in cities over 1,000,000 pop.) and not less than 200 ft. from any church or school. Nothing but liquor may be sold in the space set aside for that purpose. No one dealer or company may have more than one retail licence (thus ruling out chain stores). No one otherwise interested in the liquor business may have a retail licence and no signs may be displayed in the store advertising any brand...
...nothing to fear, or rather that its fears as expressed in the recent flight of money abroad are groundless, but the difficulty is that anything said publicly about monetary policy may reveal the purposes of the government as to ultimate stabilization and the administration does not feel the price level has risen sufficiently to stabilize...
...opinion," she continued, "the American stage is not on the same level that it was ten years ago, but it is slowly returning to those standards, isn't that right, Patsy?" the last addressed to her dog, who was gazing fondly at his mistress as she was applying her makeup...