Word: reading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...west, north and south, Dayton must be satisfied with the second best in this sphere. For all have agreed that "in all America there exists no musical organization devoted to choral song quite comparable to the St. Olaf Lutheran Choir of St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minn." For the evidence read the ravings of otherwise hardboiled critics in the enclosed folder...
President Hoover refused to become entangled in the legislative details of a farm relief bill. He pointed to his St. Louis campaign speech for a general outline of his wishes, whereupon the Senate committee had it solemnly read into its hearings...
...Reed Smoot attended the Brigham Young Academy, clerked in his father's store, worked in his father's woolen mill. A good Mormon, he believed that the sober labors of this life prepared for the life to come. Soberly, he subscribed to two New York newspapers of different faiths, read them comparatively for a year, solemnly concluded that only as a Republican could his business soul be saved. From that decision Reed Smoot has never since flinched...
...question. Whenever athletic Harvard became embroiled in a public controversy per opponent got the sympathy of the press and therefore the goodwill of the public. Now Harvard gets at least her fair share of public goodwill as far as her athletics are concerned, and since even Harvard alumni read the papers, this very important body is well disposed towards its Alma Mater, willing to kick in when the various appeals are made from Lehman Hall...
...whispering complained of is not confined to Radcliffe students nor to the Fogg library. Take the Child Library in Widener, where protracted conversations are carried on often in unsubdued tones, whether or not anyone else is trying to read, or better still the Library of Architecture in Robinson, which is a "men's library" if there ever was one, where talking, discussions, and even arguments take place in loud tones...