Word: openness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...take any note whatever that it was my administration which had aroused the old time element, because: 1) We began to give school books to all school children of the state, so as to get them in the schools and cure illiteracy. 2) We began to open up night schools for adults, so that we might teach the people from 20 to 70 years how to read and write and spell. We have already turned over thousands of people from illiteracy to literates by this process. 3) This administration turned the State Penitentiary from an institution losing a million dollars...
...over the telephone from Denver. About 10 p.m., Cellhouse No. 4 caught fire, heightening the glare in the courtyard. The convicts in Cellhouse No. 3 still held ten hostages. Father Patrick O'Neil, the burly prison priest, cried: "I can stand this no longer!" He started across the open yard with a lumberman's coat over his clericals, bearing not peace and absolution but Death-a 50 Ib. box of dynamite. Rifles and machine guns on the prison wall and in the warden's darkened house kept up a blistering barrage into the cellhouse windows...
...Merton College, and Sometime Professor of Poetry at Oxford, the visiting lecturer who holds the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry at Harvard this year. On four consecutive Wednesday evenings Professor Garrod will speak in the Fogg Large Lecture Room at 8 o'clock, where his lectures will be open to the public...
...have used the words "public" and "popular" to designate this assortment of values for the simple reason that it does not faithfully reflect the undergraduate judgement. The undergraduate, in notable instances at least, is in open rebellion against it. He is kept in subjection only by the weight of alumni opinion...
Saturday at 3 o'clock the 1933 booters will open their season against Dean Academy, on the field behind the Business School. Last year the visitors fell victims to the 1932 team by the count...