Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lane outlined the two main battles that other American Student Union chapters must flight:--for educational facilities, and for academic freedom. Although Harvard conditions warrant no such battle, Lane warned the organization against becoming a mere discussion group, stating that discussion is only a prelude to action...
Following such introductory lists, the main body of the essay should be a readable narrative of the high spots of the season, covering not only the races but other matters such as the progress of the coaching system, amusing or unusual incidents during the training season or the races themselves, and any new developments or experiments in equipment...
...Oxford, Ohio last week 1.500 members of the Student Christian Associations (affiliated college chapters of the Y.M.C.A., Y.W.C.A., etc.) plumped unequivocally for peace. At University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. National Student Federation delegates, representing student councils in 150 U. S. colleges, plumped for peace and preparedness. But the main fireworks in undergraduate preoccupation with war and peace boomed last week at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.. where convened the American Student Union...
...delegates heard messages from President Roosevelt. John L. Lewis, and Minnesota's Governor Elmer A. Benson, got an official welcome from Vassar's tall, tolerant Henry Noble MacCracken. They were bedded in Main Hall, the men in one wing, girls in another. In the corridors between the two wings the college had prudently stationed watchmen. Among the delegates were Economist Stuart Chase's son Robert (Harvard). Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo's niece Nancy (Swarthmore), Law Professor Felix Frankfurter's niece Ruth (Barnard), famed Lawyer Samuel Untermyer's grandson Frank (Cornell). Absent were...
When he overreached himself and went bankrupt, he headed for Manhattan, made a quick fortune in cigarets. Boredom drove him into the munitions business. In Paris, Ulysses created the armament cartel which did the main work in preparing both sides for the World War. In old age "his soul expanded in its power and goodness." Peacefully dead at 71, he got magnificent funerals in Greece and England, canonization by the Church. In accordance with his last will, he was buried simply in his native Greek village, his enormous fortune split into a thousand bequests...