Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover. The G. O. P. has only one platform to offer the country: the Coolidge record. The G. O. P. must therefore offer the country a candidate identifiable with the Coolidge administration. There is only one outstanding man of that description. So reason the friends of Herbert Hoover...
...have recently read that some one has discovered a letter of Thomas Jefferson, in which he related that the reason the Declaration of Independence was accepted was not because the committee liked it all so well, but because the hall where they were assembled was opposite a stable, and the delegates, being elegant gentlemen attired in long silk stockings just like those women wear today, were much annoyed by the gadflies biting their legs. Hence they adjourned quickly. Well, now I never heard that Thomas Jefferson was a jokester, but if he wrote that letter seriously, all I have...
Paul Engel, the Chief of the Division of Music in the Library of Congress in Washington, is lecturing in Paine Hall tonight at 8.15 o'clock, on "The Reason for Modern Music." Mr. Engel is a musician, writer, and librarian. His critical reviews written for the "Musical Quarterly have made him famous in the musical world...
...discussion some fundamental principle of municipal government and each involves an issue which permits an argument on both sides. In some of the cases the decision arrived at has been given and the student is asked whether or not he believes it was a sound one and the reason for his opinion. In others the facts are presented and the student is expected to work out a possible solution by applying the principles which have been developed from the lectures, text-books, and other assigned reading in the course. In other event an attempt is made to give the pertinent...
...histrionics is now over and the campfires on the Brattle Hall stage have died out. The production itself, however,-- "The Chisholm Trail"-- will be remembered as marking the Club's return to, if not a more artistic policy, at least to one which yields larger financial returns. For some reason--possibly because it had a theme worth writing about, possibly because it was a radical departure from recent plays of the Club--"The Chisholm Trail" "caught...