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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact of the matter is that Illinois finds herself in the peculiar position of the policeman who ought to arrest his brother but who hasn't the heart. The Honor System has existed for one year at that university and it is obvious from the recent occurrence that its position is by no means assured. Here again we find the system existing without the whole-hearted support of the upper classes. The students in the case were popular in university circles and one of them had recently been pledged to an honorary class society. When they were discovered cribbing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 6/7/1920 | See Source »

...nothing more unprofitable than to criticise a letter sent to the public press. However, the letter from Mr. Paul McK. Palmer which recently appeared in your columns seems to demand an answer on account of its character. I would not take the trouble to point out its many obvious errors were it not for two things...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 5/27/1920 | See Source »

...committee of labor leaders which has condemned the attitude of the governor on this question, holds sentiments on the beer and wine question which have been echoed throughout the country on the stump, in the papers, and at the polls. But no one has attempted to confute the obvious logic of the governor's veto message. "Massachusetts," says Coolidge, "can not be a party to nullification"--can not "take a chance on the Constitution," and must not take the initiative in nullifying legislation, which is the law of the land until declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEER AND THE CONSTITUTION. | 5/11/1920 | See Source »

...combining as it does the opinion of two of the United States' greatest universities, will be just so much more full of significance than the single vote at Harvard in past campaigns. As a result, whether you are a Hoover "intellectual," a Wood "platitudinarian," or favor Governor Edwards for obvious reasons, make the straw ballot really representative by polling a large student vote today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VOTE TODAY. | 5/4/1920 | See Source »

...crudity of this blunder must be twice as obvious to the learned gentlemen who committed it: Why did they do it? Sympathy for Ireland may have prejudiced some Senators, but for the most part we fear there was another motive. Pressure from constituencies of Irish complexion must have drive these men to lose sight of national interests in personal ones. C. E. WORKS 1L. V. E. MACY, JR. '20. C. R. STEEDMAN...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 3/24/1920 | See Source »

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