Word: madison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haynes, Prohibition Commissioner, received a temperance medal bearing a temperance certificate signed by James Madison, Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams in 1834. It was sent from Los Angeles by President Jackson's great-grandson, Andrew Jackson IV, who asked a job in the Prohibition Unit...
...window of their overseer. Rapine, carnival, all-night carousals, drinking-brawls, Babylonian revels?these said the press, have been going forward at the University of Wisconsin. Sorely, sorely, if the press is to be credenced, does the University of Wisconsin need an administrator. Judge Ole Stolen, magistrate of Madison, Wis., where the University is situate, stated last week that many students were of such licentious habits that frequently, at cockcrow, persons believed to be female, but smelling dismally of alcohol, were carried in blankets from fraternity houses. "Liquor and women have become a craze." Crime increases; "the County jail would...
Later, to a committee which had journeyed from Madison to interview him, Dean Pound definitely declined the presidency of the University of Wisconsin...
Dean Pound's determination to refuse the offer made by the Regents at the University of Wisconsin came as more or less of a surprise to many people. Both "The Nation" and "Time" in speaking of the offer by the Madison authorities seemed to take it for granted that he had virtually accepted the offer...
Colgate was once Madison...