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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week President Coolidge added a new restriction to correspondents' reports of their semiweekly White House conferences. When, as often happens, questions asked at these conferences are not answered, the fact of their having been asked may no longer be mentioned. An unanswered question must be considered as unasked. Silence equals annihilation...
Lawyer Clarence Darrow, whose Lake Placid address partook of the fervor of a national legend, often addresses Negroes, with a fervor entirely his own. Many a member of the John Brown pilgrimage went to hear Mr. Darrow, in Philadelphia, make his usual speech about the "race" people. In this speech Mr. Darrow says...
...large amount of support is received by American universities from endowments, and therefore to turn down a $600,000 offer often means cutting into the very life-blood of the university, but Harvard refused the money on a good principle and one well worth following by other educational institutions in the country. Today Dr. Mears's system of teaching eugenics is probably one of the best. but tomorrow it may be one of the worst. Harvard did not want to take the chance. The stanford Daily
...first record of a Harvard distance runner's winning two firsts in the same afternoon, a feat often accomplished by University endurance stars in recent years, is of a meet in 1875 in which President Lowell, then an undergraduate was proclaimed victor in both the mile and half mile. The record of 5 minutes 2 1-2 seconds which he set in the former race withstood the assaults of the Crimson trackmen until a cinder track greatly improved the conditions of running at Harvard...
Undergraduate opinion is sometimes worth much, often worth very little. Especially is the critical opinion of the worth of a fellow undergraduate a hazardous basis for just judgment. Just how much of the character-sketching done in last fall's reports on individual Freshmen written by that species of underclassmen known as Student Advisors possessed any real insight must remain a matter of conjecture...