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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first primary last year, I ran second to the Klan candidate. ... I mean my wife ran second...
...Naturally, my wife was there, and she had that much sense that she said: 'Mr. Satterwhite, do you mean to say you would bring impeachment proceedings against me without any evidence...
Everything depends upon the professor. His lectures may mean all that is here attributed to the lecture system at its best. Again, his lectures may be poor, perfunctory things, uninspired by philosophy and criticism, and hence lacking that necessary connection with the problems of life which marks the great difference between vital knowledge and statistics. When the latter is true, the fault lies with the man, not the system...
...mean that we have today no part in international organization. For fifty years, we have played our role in a league of nations which now happily includes nearly all the peoples of the world the Universal Postal Union. We have even begun to feel our way toward some method of sharing in all the cooperation now under way at Geneva. But in the big advance since the war, we who stood out most valiantly for international law and order while we were a young, struggling nation, have not only not been able to keep our leadership, we have ceased...
...limit football practice to three hours in the afternoon. We mean by this that the number of hours of practice shall be so limited that football will not make the exorbitant demands upon a student's time that it now does. Evening meetings should, therefore, be discouraged...