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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will mean that as the number of applicants for admission to Harvard continues to increase and the College through necessity continues to raise her standard of scholarship, the boarding school will be able to enter fewer and fewer men, and that those who do succeed in passing their entrance examinations will either soon be dropped out or stay in only because of laborious efforts, which, in most cases will be grudgingly made for the sake of being able to maintain a standing in athletics or other outside activities...
...well known saying among local Democrats that, 'if Curley and Walsh want to carry Massachusetts, they will have to soft pedal this Davis stuff.' This does not of course mean that there is more than usual support for Coolidge. It means that with two reactionaries in the national field, all the liberal vote is swinging to La Follette. You and Senator Walsh seem aware of this and have done all in your power to 'soft pedal this Davis stuff.' You have stood from under all that you could. But it is necessary to satisfy the national campaign managers that...
Candidate Coolidge. ". . . He is shrewd and calculating. You have only to look at his face to see that. It is a Yankee face. It just missed being a mean face, with its tight mouth and the over-sharp nose set at too pronounced an angle with the brow. The eyes are narrow and veiled, though they light up readily. The brightness of the eyes and the frequent smile save the face from repelling you. The smile is frugal...
...inquire into the character of his customer, but furnishes his goods to all buyers without discrimination. A doctor regards himself as under obligation to treat anyone who may call upon him, although he may may know that his patient deserves to be sick and will probably be as mean as ever when he gets well. In other words, the business man and the doctor exercise their callings in a more or less impersonal way, considering themselves bound to disregard their private inclinations in purely professional matters. This is really necessary in order that the machinery of the world...
...noticed that. What does the star mean...