Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...field as a symptom of an ever decreasing loyalty on the part of Harvard men, and even hint that the doctrine of overemphasis was invented merely to save the trouble of organized cheering. How upsetting it must be to the followers of conventional doctrines to have President Little of Michigan throw the full force of his opinion onto the other side of the anancient Harvard paradox. A Harvard alumnus himself, with an unusually intimate acquaintance with another side of American university life, he comes out definitely with the statement that it is the Harvard type of loyalty which is most...
...after arguments heard last spring. Three of these cases were notable-1) The Great Lakes States v. the City of Chicago. Lawyer Charles Evans Hughes, a onetime member of the Supreme Court, had been appointed special master. His report upheld Chicago's right to withdraw water from Lake Michigan, at the expense of other lake levels, for its sewage canal. 2) A test case about the Ku Klux Klan-whether it is constitutional for States to require secret organizations to put their secrets on file. 3) A test case about Shriners-whether persons founding fraternal orders may closely copy...
...Arthur F. Willebrandt was superintendent of a high school in Buckley, Mich. Mabel Elizabeth Walker was a girl of 21, teaching lumberjacks' children in the Buckley primary school. She had gone to Michigan with her parents from Kansas, where she was born in a sod hut on the prairie...
Died. Abraham Isaacs, 70, Ohio dry goods merchant & philanthropist, father of six professors and associate professors (Harvard, University of Rochester, University of Michigan, Columbia, Pittsburgh University); in Cincinnati, Ohio. Died. Henry Charles ("Carl") Ramos, 72, veteran New Orleans saloonkeeper, inventor of the famed, much-imitated Ramos gin fizz;* in New Orleans...
...faces in a giant lecture hall. He would rather be an organ-grinder's monkey than a bandleader's baton. He has staked his reputation on a small college with a limited course of instruction, thorough within itself; and if that be poison, there is still Columbia, Cornell, California, Michigan, Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Brown...