Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President & Mrs. Hoover last week broke a precedent by giving a private dinner for Belgian Ambassador & Princess de Ligne. They had a good reason...
...practice the advisability of going the whole hog in offering independence and full responsibility to the student may indeed be frowned upon. . .and with considerable reason. Nor are the professors to be criticized for the inability or unwillingness to grant this academic entre-acte. But by the same tokens the enthusiastic assertions of the college authorities in support and praise of the reading period should wait upon a broader investigation of the facts...
...reason why I shouldn't fly. If a pilot has been properly trained, he is just as good when he is old as when he was young. Some of the best pilots in the service today are getting along in years...
...after 6 o'clock of a Sunday afternoon, but is perfectly acceptable during the hours between is a particularly knotty theological problem. One might conjecture that the auspices were unfavorable to any other arrangement on the day when this regulation was enacted but there seems little other reason in a suspension of Sabbath for these afternoon hours...
...which the facts to be mastered must be gotten through voluminous reading in assorted text books. Still another, who likes to spend the week-ends away from Cambridge, will not take any course which comes between the mystic hours of noon and 1 o'clock, for the very simple reason that the fastest train for New York leaves the South Station...