Word: pamphleteers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...August a special form-letter is sent to each Freshman regarding registration and consultation with Advisers. With this letter is sent the pamphlet entitled, "Studies of the Freshman Year"; a list of the members of the Board of Freshman Advisers with the subjects which they teach, and a blank asking for the name; age; home address; address to which notice of appointment of Adviser should be sent; name of parent or guardian; where the boy has been prepared for College; the name of any Adviser to whom for any special reason, personal or otherwise, he would like to be assigned...
...Faculty Room at 4 o'clock. At that meeting each Adviser receives an envelope containing the excerpts from the letters from parents and teachers; the preparatory school or admission grades of his advisees; the "Rules Relating to College Studies" and "Studies of the Freshman Year;" the elective pamphlet; a memorandum for the guidance of Advisers; the Freshman Week program, with the Advisers' names and hours and places of consultation on the back; and a supply of blank record cars on which the grades of each advisee may be entered throughout the year. There is also space on these cards...
...walking through the cellar one day, when I noticed that one of my coal bins had been completely filled with thousands of copies of some pamphlet. This was a clear hint, which I immediately seized. I cancelled all my coal orders for that month and used the pamphlets. They were all new, bore no signs that anyone had ever opened them. In this way I saved the price of 44 tons of coal, which will keep me in penwipers for the rest of my life. You may be interested to know that I was the one who originated the term...
...Herr Quidde?" roared the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, and answered: "More than 30 years ago he gained cheap fame with the pamplet Caligula." Indeed, few Germans could recall, last week, the full title of that pamphlet: "Caligula: A Study of Caesarean Insanity." When published, it temporarily wrecked the good Professor's academic career?for in it he dared to suggest that Wilhelm II might fall a prey to that madness born of power which destroyed the reason of the Roman Emperor Caligula (12-41). Because Professor Quidde has continued all his life to militate against militarism and to propagate German peace...
...hearts and slow the pens of many who thought the League was leagued with the Devil and the Methodist Church to controvert the rights of American citizens; but one is permitted to wonder what statistics and horrible examples will be added to the phenomena of contemporary life in a pamphlet war for the conversion and diversion of the public...