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...followed. So whenever a President retires at a suitable age there is always talk of his entering Congress. The House of Representatives is not as attractive to public-men today as it was in the younger Adams's day, so it is the Senate where gossip places ex-Presi-dents. The difficulty is that there never is a vacancy at the right time. Some one is up for reelection. Or if a member dies or retires, others have made plans years ahead to succeed the retiring member. Thus it will rarely happen that an ex-President can enter...
...sang a group of girls and boys, waving their hats or their handkerchiefs from the porch of Camp Roosevelt, when the Presi- dent arrived in Yellowstone Park. In response, the President bowed; Mrs. Coolidge bowed, smiled; John Coolidge bowed, smiled. The song's lack of variety was balanced by its peculiar pertinency; the President had left Rapid City the night before, suffering from indigestion but had now recovered...
...scholarship. This correspondent gently pointed to President A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard; to one-time (1899-1921) President Arthur Twining Hadley of Yale; to William Rainey Harper, first president of University of Chicago; to David Starr Jordan, onetime (1891-1913) president of Stanford University; to Nicholas Murray Butler, presi- dent of Columbia University; to several others as scholar presidents. This correspondent was President of Yale University, James Rowland Angell...
...Sullivan made it sound as though he had . expended much time and effort on McGuffey's. "There also was a man named McGuffey," he said. "I have learned enough to be able to say with some confidence that William Holmes McGuffey had a larger influence . . . than, for example, several Presi dents of the United States...
...President, the Constitution of the U. S. bestows enormous discretionary powers; in the case of a conflict between the laws of Church and State, a Catholic Presi dent might be forced to deviate from his oath of office, or his allegiance to the Church. According to Roman Catholic law, education is a religious activity and be longs to the Church ; in U. S. theory it is a secular activity and belongs to the State.* According to the Roman Catholic Church (Pope Leo XIII): "It is not lawful for the State ... to disregard all religious duties or to hold in equal...