Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cambridge University, last week, conferred upon James Loeb the degree of Doctor of Laws. Gentlemen who receive honorary degrees at Cambridge are formally presented by a public orator who chimes their achievements on the bronze bells of a very dead and very beautiful language. The speaker who so served Doctor Loeb began by quoting Pindar. If he misrepresented the Greek, he said, there was one present who had taken great pains to have all authors truly rendered (here there was the graceful flourish of a gowned arm)- Mr. Loeb. The bell-ringing orator spoke with as much justice as courtesy...
...Orange and Black eights have been fining up as follows: Orange--stroke, Clark; 7, Thorne; 6, Forrest; 5, Van Gytenbeek; 4, Ball; 3, Magee; 2, Williams; bow, Dyer, C.; cox:, Kennedy. Black--stroke, Altken; 7, Goodman; 6, Hayden; 5, Deemer; 4, McConthe; 3, Collins; 2, Thorpe; bow, Loeb. No cox has as yet been assigned to the Black Varsity...
...Tuesday Mr. Clarence S. Darrow will be given a luncheon, at which he will speak on "Crime and Punishment." Mr. Darrow is considered one of the most brilliant criminal and corporation lawyers in the United States. He came into especial prominence through his defense of Loeb and Leopold last summer. The attendance at this luncheon will be limited to the first 200 Union members who sign up at the newsstand of the Union...
...summer, the meeting of the American Bar Association in London (TIME, Aug. 4, et. seq.) were impressed with the way in which trials take place in England-in the court room and not in the newspapers. This experience, together with the publicity which attended the trial of Leopold and Loeb, is said to have induced the present stand of the members of the Chicago...
...their teachers can boast. . . . If they do not learn, it is because they are not taught. The conversation of students is often of a low grade. So is that of their teachers." Prof. Shaw declared that the student of the day inclines to the unemotional attitude of Leopold and Loeb, Chicago perverts; that Phi Beta Kappa, hierarchy of U. S. scholarship, is as useless as its emblem, a watch...