Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...France's debt to the U. S. has already been scaled down once, by the Mellon-Berenger debt-funding agreement of 1926. France has not yet ratified that agreement and likes to consider that her U. S. debt is still an open question. The legal life of the debt-funding commission has expired, however, and the Coolidge-Mellon attitude is that the question is closed. "They hired the money, didn't they?" President Coolidge is supposed to have said in 1926. Now he says, and from time to time repeats (in effect): "The U. S. taxpayer should...
...which looks ahead to the time when many of the more responsible undergraduate positions may have become paid jobs. The loss of glamor in the high places and the growing proclivity of students to study are evident today. Must the assurance of pay counteract these forces to keep life in the extra-curricular work in the University...
...doubt for the Harvard of fifty years from now the pictures would serve as curiosities. But alike for the student of the future and the vast numbers of people who today can know little of Harvard life as it is going on, the pictures can do more. When popular novels, sports articles and an impression of indifference together fail to satisfy, there is no better way to know the life of a group of an institution than to see where it is lived...
...Charles Joseph Bonaparte Scholarship is given by Mrs. Ellen C. Bonaparte. The preference in choosing the student to whom the award is to be made is given to students who have demonstrated an interest in the study of American government and who give promise of helping in after life to promote higher standards in government and citizenship. The scholarship is awarded at the end of his Junior year to that member of the class concentrating in Government who, without regard to financial need, has the highest academic standing in that subject...
...cheering. How upsetting it must be to the followers of conventional doctrines to have President Little of Michigan throw the full force of his opinion onto the other side of the anancient Harvard paradox. A Harvard alumnus himself, with an unusually intimate acquaintance with another side of American university life, he comes out definitely with the statement that it is the Harvard type of loyalty which is most needed in American colleges today...