Word: pains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...every circle, even to Harvard University, the president of which had offered one thousand students (who fortunately never appeared) to take the places of absent police, while one of the lecturers had addressed a gathering of policemen's wives so sympathetically that a number of graduates were demanding, under pain of not contributing to the endowment fund, that his mouth be stopped...
...strike-breakers." Approximately two hundred and fifty undergraduates of the Summer School answered his call. Furthermore, no Harvard lecturer addressed a gathing of policemen's wives. And we call on Mr. Villard to present facts which would support the statement that "a number of graduates were demanding, under pain of not contributing to the endowment fund" that the mouth of the Harvard lecturer be stopped. Does the writer imagine that our graduates are bereft of loyalty to their Alma Mater? Does he believe that more differences of opinion would stand in the way of their contributing to the College fund...