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...long demonstration that led former Harvard President Josiah Quincy to throw out the entire class of 1834, to the 5000-student disorder last April demanding restoration of the Latin Diploma. There are few sights more stirring than a college riot, but Harvard is not making idle threats in its pamphlet Regulations for Students in Harvard College, that the "mere presence" of a student in a disturbance or unauthorized demonstration makes him liable to disciplinary action. Several students whose only offense last April was that they watched others throw eggs at the Cambridge cops found this out the hard...
Under sharp questioning on his statement that he compiled the vocabulary list in the 1941 "Let's Go," Koppell acknowledged that three-quarters of the 32 word list followed in identical order a list contained in "Europe '61," a pamphlet published by Speak-easy Language Cards...
Homogeneously Conservative. Printed in 38 charter papers, Buckley's first column must have seemed something of a dud. Its target was a pamphlet. Communism: Threat to Freedom, issued last March by the Rev. John F. Cronin, S.S.,* of the National Catholic Welfare Conference in Washington. To Buckley. Father Cronin's main point-that the Communist threat is more external than internal-seemed hardly worth arguing ("the distinction has become old-fashioned and increasingly useless''). The columnist contented himself with an attack on the value of God as the Western world's ally. Wrote Buckley...
...Magazine for October 1868 reported that the English gentry jokingly referred to the Queen (then 49) as "Mrs. Brown." Punch ran a satirical Court Circular detailing the doings of Mr. John Brown; another magazine published a cartoon of John Brown lolling against a vacant throne; a scurrilous pamphlet, "Mrs. John Brown," was circulated, with the claim that they were morganatic man and wife...
This is straight out of the Marquis de Sade, with some Sartrean existentialist glosses provided by the doctor's morphine-addicted mistress ("The world is foul, Commissioner, rotting like a badly stored fruit") and a trained nurse who has written a pamphlet titled: Death, Goal and Purpose of Our Life, A Practical Guide. In the end, Barlach sweats out the ticking last hours, minutes, seconds before the time set for the operation he knows will end in his own death under the doctor's sadistic knife. Pat to the final instant comes Salvation, in the mysterious appearance...