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...would be able to devote most of his time to the Union and thus take over both positions. In case such a man can be found the Board would create a new position with a suitable salary attached to it. In view of this fact all applications of older men will be carefully considered. All applications should be field with W. S. Stone 3L, at the Union...
...considered directory, not mandatory, and a marriage outside the statutory law−i.e., under common or unwritten law−is by implication a legal exception, quite valid if the faith and intent behind the contract are good. Common-law marriages are recognized by the courts of most of the older States east of the Mississippi. Some of the newer States by statute expressly prohibit such unions. No nonstatutory marriage can be positively stamped as valid until its special circumstances have been reviewed by a competent court...
...Governor. This time it was Henry Simpson Johnston, impeached and convicted by the State Legislature for "general incompetence" (TIME, Jan. 28 et ante). Lieut. Gov. William J. Holloway, taking the oath as the new Governor, invoked "the blessings and guidance of Almighty God" to assist him. Citizens of the older States sympathized with his sentiments. The charge of "general incompetence" seemed as much of a commentary on the people he had to govern as upon his daydreaming predecessors. Gov. J. C. ("Jack") Walton was impeached, convicted and removed in 1923. Three of Oklahoma's five other Governors since...
...Harvard undergraduate life are less obnoxious than they are painted by the warmest supporters of the Housing system. For undergraduate life at Harvard is not so unnatural and artificial that the House Plan can eliminate immediately the small social groups, as one Harvard Club officer predicts. The more enthusiastic older alumni are too optimistic. When it is admitted that the same small social groups will be just as conspicuous a part of the House Plan as they are of the present dormitory system, many erroneous impressions as to the Utopian democracy of the House Plan will be swept away...
Whether the Harvard undergraduate desires to be harnessed with silken leading strings or allowed the free reins of natural social intercourse, it is evident that the older generation of graduates sentimentally think of him in terms of the pre-war Harvard of their youth. The younger graduate would be the better authority on the problem of how sadly the modern Harvard man needs the House Plan...