Word: reed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another college has been drawn back from the path of Bolshevism by the enlightened authority of a board of regents. Reed College, in Portland, Oregon, accused of dalliance with progressive ideas, has been most happily snatched back to salvation. The death of Richard Scholz, its late president, gave the opportunity for the business interests of Portland, entrenched in the regents board, to deflect the college from its doubtful toying with ideas. The new president, Mr. Norman Coleman, was leader of the war time movement to oust the I. W. W. from mines and lumber camps. He is a stalwart defender...
...mediocre future of Reed College need hardly be described. The liberalism of views expressed by a faculty which had been freed by their president's resistance from the pressure of an uncomprehending board of regents, is no longer to be dangerous. The originator of so thorough, if unofficial, a persecution of economic dissenters will not be too sympathetic to any ideas which might be accused of unorthodoxy. His constant care will be to purge Reed College of its liberal fevers. From hence-forth, Reed College must play, in the educational sphere, a respectable if uninspired and totally mediocre role...
...Langford Reed is one of the modern wonders of the world. After plowing through sixteen thousand limericks in preparing his forthcoming book, "The Complete Limerick," he still clings nobly to his original conviction that there are enough decent limericks to fill a book--George Eernard Shaw, Arnold Bennett, and others to the contrary notwithstanding. Mr. Reed is courageous; but, although his volume is not yet on sale; it is a good wager that the average of his selections will fall considerably below the poetic level of those delectable lines on "The Young Plumber of Leigh", which Mr. Bennett, if correctly...
Still, in the face of almost insuperable obstacles, Langford Reed seems to have produced a book. As he must be laboring under many difficulties in planning the second volume, it might not be out of place to mention for his benefit the other innocuous verse, the one about the young fellow named Young, who once when his nerves were unstrung, put his mother, unseen in the sausage machine, and canned her and labelled her "Tongue...
...Nebraska objected strongly to the ejection. Senator Cummins of Iowa, President pro tem, of the Senate objected less vigorously, calling attention to the fact that he himself had supported Roosevelt's Progressive Party in 1912. But the ejectors were not to be downed. A resolution by Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania was adopted with only one or two voices in opposition...