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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gadsden Purchase made by President Pierce in 1853, named for James Gadsden who negotiated it, is a strip of land across the southern part of New Mexico and Arizona, bought from Mexico for $10,000,000 to "rectify" the international boundary. Five years earlier, following the Mexican War, the U. S. had taken all of California, Nevada, Utah, most of Arizona and New Mexico, paying only $15,000,000. The Gadsden Purchase is something of a synonym for Conscience Money...
...harangues of the two leaders took the greater part of a whole day. The next day Field Marshal Simmons, finding that he had turned two pages of his speech together (by accident), brought out the lost page and read it to his eager followers. Then, not to omit any element of a proper epic, Chief of Staff Pat Harrison leapt upon the Democratic parapet and reviled the leaders of the enemy. Said...
...Senator Henry Justin Allen of Kansas, who took a prominent part in the Kansas Hoover campaign, outspoken, never at a loss for words...
From Columbia's muliebral Barnard College last fortnight issued the annual report of famed Dean Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve. In part, she observed that it is "practically impossible for all except a very few unusual young women to attempt working their way for four years without serious injury to their health or academic standing or both. ... I have in mind an able and interesting girl who hitchhiked across country from the Pacific Coast a few years ago and started to work her way through Barnard. In spite of our efforts to aid her the strain had produced, by the time...
Harvard was a political and ecclesiastical rebel, but it has carried an English school tradition. In the late President Eliot it was almost a loyalty. With Mr. Lowell it may be an acute form of colonialism to which a part of New England is strangely and perversely addict. Hence, probably, the house idea at Cambridge which would cloister the young men in Boston suburb reproductions of Baliol, Magdalene, etc. There is an endowment available for one of them. A further projection of the idea is that the athletics of the university shall be principally contests between the houses...