Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These are among others the "lorgnettes" through which Yale peers foggily at Harvard. We listen to jokes in which the protagonists are Harvard men, laugh, do not seek to reason why so-and-so went there kid so-and-so for having gone there, bet on the football game, the New London classic event, win, lose, forget all about it. I should expect to find neatly pressed clothing, red neckties, large wardrobes, pocket books and imaginations prevalent among the undergraduate body. I should realize, having quit the laissez-faire atmosphere of Yale for the savoir-faire atmosphere of Harvard...
...Beneagh. Director of Athletics at Hanover. W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics at the University, and Lon Little, Georgetown coach, proposing this novel form of flood relief. The latter accepted the invitation, but Mr. Bingham and Mr. Heneagh were obliged to decline for the respective reasons that the Stadium is available only for undergraduate activities and that the Dartmouth-team has definitely finished its reason...
Professor Norton's interest in the organization was unflagging to the time of his death, and this is the reason that the Boston Society of the Institute wishes to contribute something to the centenary celebration. It seems especially appropriate that the lecture should deal with the American School at Athens, since this was the first of the foreign schools to be established. Indeed, many of Professor Norton's friends believe that he organized the Institute primarily for the purpose of establishing the School at Athens...
...President Coolidge's reason for delaying this appointment so long is the distance of the U. S. from the Philippines. A recess appointment might be vetoed by the Senate causing the appointee a 10,000 mile round-trip for nothing...
...Research showed him to be no more than Counselor of Embassy at the German Embassy at Rome. Was the German Government actually proposing to elevate a man of such minor rank to be an ambassador? Well, why not? He was evidently a capable, brilliant, clever diplomat. There was no reason why the U. S. should object to the appointment. The U. S. Secretary of State caused the German Government to be informed by cable that the President and Government of the U. S. considered Dr. von Prittwitz persona grata...