Word: personally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Will you kindly get your staff of psychologists, anthropologists, etc., busy on this question, and inform me whether there is any connection between the danger of teaching evolution and the necessity of marking both ends of the car differently? Just last week I saw evidence that at least one person from the three above named States had a sense of humor. He had the "rear" license plate in front, and the "front" plate on the rear. More power to him! THOMAS T. GILL...
Commissioner Edward Allen McCulloch, presiding, ruled that "witnesses are not permitted to use this place as a forum for debate with any other person...
...York's Congressman La Guardia issued the civil war warning, thus: "At some place at some time the wrong person will be shot and the people of that locality will retaliate. When that happens such a spirit may sweep this country that our people will rebel against this tyranny. Prohibition is not worth plunging the country into civil...
There are certain phases of every person's life which become disconnected, and for the college graduate the four years spent in getting an education represent the most striking example of this. After graduation a class inevitably breaks up and many close friendships die never to be renewed. And yet in later years when the Yard is merely a memory and the football teams is the only thing he hears about the graduate still retains a sincere feeling of appreciation to the institution that guided his steps for four years...
...University's guests, and the awarding of honor degrees is the most interesting part of the ceremony. It is a clever custom that keeps the names secret until the actual event, and an even more desirable one that makes it necessary for each recipient to be present in person. Sometimes one wishes that the same requirement might be enforced for candidates for regular degrees. Certainly the Senior's experiences of Commencement Week have become an unforgettable memory: he has been welcomed by the graduates body into which he now enters; he learns perhaps for the first time the existence...