Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...political affairs. When I was at college the fashion used to be to indulge in torchlight parades, marching right into Boston. Perhaps this has become old-fashioned now but it was a great way to arouse enthusiasm. The Republican Club has taken the lead in securing a really first rate speaker, when they procured Mr. Mondell. I think the other two organizations should do the same, that is, get a man of national prominence to make an address...
...well to remember that undergraduates who are meticulous about boat trimmings and golf clubs, even literary undergraduates, have little respect for craftsmanship in the mechanics of writing. Perhaps the Advocate editors consider cavalier treatment of spelling and punctuation as an indication of their freedom from pettiness. At any rate there are errors enough to shame a capable proofreader...
...identity of the supposed victim of an airplane accident near Squantum on Wednesday, September 25, has been discovered to be W. A. Spurr, a Senior at Harvard. Spurr, who was taking part in a naval reserve flight on Wednesday, said yesterday that he was flying at a high rate of speed close to the ocean, and disappeared behind some land, there by starting the rumor that the plane liad disappeared in the ocean...
...they were prevented from telling all they knew. . . . The mental and emotional processes by which we first come to recognize the difference between our current standards of right and wrong, and then act upon that knowledge, are shrouded in complete darkness." Lawyers as a body are not, at any rate as yet, very sympathetic to this explanation of human conduct as determining human responsibilities. Cooperation, they argue, is a condition of life in civilized communities. When a person fails to conform to the standards of society and gives the minimum amount of cooperation, as required by the criminal...
...twenty or fifteen. Well, it depends. If the teacher is not a good one, it is better to limit the number of his students--that is, if you can't get rid of him altogether. Similarly, a college should be small if the instruction it imparts is not first rate. But if its faculty contains great teachers, it is a loss for the nation if its enrolment is not large...