Word: pecks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the student council of Northwestern University reported unfavorably on a proposal to embrace the honor system. Midwestern students are not yet ready for it, said Councilman Hollis Peck, of Sioux Falls, S. Dak. "They're a motley crew, without the faintest notion of what honor is in respect to school work. At the University of Virginia the student body follows the honor system successfully, for Virginians are born gentlemen. Princeton and other eastern schools also have students of integrity who respect the honor system...
...council to the committee consisting of 12 men in the Freshman class who will make all possible contacts with foreign students in their class. Members of the 1936 Committee are J. F. King, A. G. Henry, H. E. Roman, W. H. Durfee, J. K. Musgrave, Wayne Andrews, J. D. Peck, A. K. Hartmann, F. F. Schimmel, J. F. Fitzgerald...
Miss Annie Smith Peck, long-famed mountain climber who will be 82 next month, plodded to the summit of Mount Crescent (3,280 ft.) near Gorham, N. H. and down again. Her most conspicuous exploit occurred 24 years ago when she climbed Mount Huascaran (21,812 ft.) in the Peruvian Andes. In her honor a peak of the mountain was named Cumbre Ana Peck...
...Tyler Peck was no ordinary Hoosier farmer. Hot-headed Kentuckian, he had had to come home from college to work on the farm when his older brothers went off to fight for the North. Tyler had itched to enlist, but on the Confederate side. As a youthful revenge on his family for not letting him go to War he married the daughter of a no-account neighbor, emigrated to Indiana to his Uncle Lafe's farm. There he worked with erratic energy as husband & husbandman. Crops & children came, but Tyler wanted wilder oats. At the news of Lee's surrender...
...asked for an opinion. Weightily the Academic considered, then over the voluble opposition of a youthful minority delivered these decisions: 1) the country man's hands carry fewer germs than the city man's, but 2) more germs change carriers during a handclasp than during a perfunctory peck of the lips; hence 3) the handshake is more dangerous than the kiss...