Word: plains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reduced. But the same people also seem ignorantly to expect that taxation can be immediately reduced in proportion. Yet, when we know that about eight billion dollars in Victory notes, war savings stamps, and treasury certificates of indebtedness will fall due in the next three years, it is plain that we must continue a policy of heavy taxation. Besides our regular national expenses, then, we must meet this added war burden...
...entertainment committee consists of the following members: John Edward Kennedy of Jamaica Plain, chairman; John Churchill Newcomb of Jefferson County, Kentucky, Lawrence Wilkinson Rathbun of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, Robert Fessenden Thayer of Brookline, Belden Wigglesworth of New York City, John Mason Brown of Louisville, Kentucky, Garrison Morton of New York City, Edwin Newton Ohl Jr. of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, Phillips Elder Wilson of East Gloucester, and John Hodges of Cambridge...
Then turning to his subject, he told in plain, straightforward language the kind of life a Harvard man should lead. "You get out of Harvard just what you put put into it; never stop playing until the game is over," he continued. He then wound up his address by saying that being a Harvard man was an obligation; that whatever a graduate or undergraduate of the University does, reflects honor or dishonor on Harvard...
...Chattanooga, Tennessee; Edwin Thomas Martin, ocC., of Marblehead; John Morrison Martin '22, of Cambridge; Charles Jeremiah Mason, Jr., '22, of Scarsdale, New York; Phillip Converse Newton '21, of West Roxbury; William Roos, ocC., of New Bedford; Harlan Smyth Russell, 3 E.S. of Methuen; John DeCasgrain Scott '22, of Jamaica Plain; Malcolm Clark Sherman '20, of Cambridge; Carl Senff Stillman Jr., '22, of Wellesley; Elijah Hubbard Stillman '22, of Wellesley; Paul Kendriken Thomas '22, of Peoria, Illinois; and Harold Kleinert Guinzburg '21, of New York City (manager...
Professor Morriman's discussion of the tutorial system on Thursday night made the goal seem both more desirable and more unobtainable. It was plain that the speaker, like every American who has been at Oxford and made a success there, felt keenly that no intellectual experience of his student life either at Harvard or in Europe has been as fine as his contact with his tutors at Baliol. The most justifiable kind of envy is the envy of a man caught in the machinery of one sort of educational mill for the chaps who are in another mill which...