Word: reade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Being a master in another Eastern preparatory school, I read with great interest your article on the unique new plan applied to The Hill School for determining the advisability of college for each boy. The Hill School is to be highly commended for devising a new method to control the present American passion for a liberal arts college degree, regardless of fitness...
...historian recalls an August night among the Vermont hills less than six years ago-reporters in automobiles rushing over country roads; a knock on the door of a white farmhouse in the hamlet of Plymouth; oil lamps lit dispelling the darkness; telegrams read by their glow; a brief statement of mourning; an oath of office administered at 2:30 a. m. by a country notary public to his son, the thirtieth President...
...stepped into the Presidency as a silent, cautious, rather wry myth. He had proved himself safe. He suffered himself to be photographed pitching hay for the 1924 campaign and on March 4, 1925, the people let him put his hand on the Bible from which he had learned to read at the age of four, and swear to "Preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States...
...tellers made a perfunctory count, handed up a tabulation to Vice President Dawes who read...
...knew that he was going to do something that contained the essence of what is called "Human Interest." It did seem to him that when a man, even a Hero, is going to get married, that he might be let alone. The newsgatherers were waving slips of paper which read: "Ambassador and Mrs. Morrow announce the engagement of their daughter Anne Spencer to Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh." Well? Col. Lindbergh compressed his lips and only opened them to say: "You know all about it. I have nothing to say. I will confine my remarks to aviation." The next...