Word: reference
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doesn't smoke, he no doubt has other expensive habits. Scientific tests have proved that dog-owning children have a 50% better chance of growing up into honest, thoughtful citizens. And would Mr. Butler deprive thousands of lonely city people of their only companions? I refer, particularly, to "old maids" and bachelors in strange cities, to say nothing of invalids. Of course there is no need to call attention to the hundreds of useful farm, police and hunting dogs...
With the impending election of a new president of the University a topic of interest, it is interesting to note the method of electing the president and how it has applied in the elections of Presidents Eliot and Lowell. The nomination must come from the Corporation, who refer their choice to the Overseers for a concurrent vote. Due to the absence of some of the members of the Corporation, it is considered unlikely that the choice of a new president will be acted upon before February or March...
...Century elegance. Port Royal has 60 old buildings, most of them built soon after the Revolutionary War. In their shadow there is genteel marketing, churchgoing, scampering of children. Oldsters gabble of huntin' and fishin', aware that nothing much else has happened there since the conflict which they refer to as the War Between the States. Impecunious, somnolent, dignified, Port Royal would be just the place for a company of scholars with little money but much bookish fervor, and last week that was just what began to assemble there...
...will but Bear with me a while, oh my disciples, I will reveal to you the scores of this afternoon's most important games. But first let me refer you back to the uncanny precision of my prophecies of last week. True it is that I forecast Harvard 26, Dartmouth 13, but my most understanding followers were wise enough to subtract the magic numbers of 16 and 6 respectively in order to get the correct score. (However, today I will prognosticate so that the simpler ones among you may know the outcomes before the games are played...
Michigan Republicans in Detroit heard Secretary Mills refer to "a new light in the east, the rising sun of a new day." At St. Louis he attacked Governor Roosevelt for "misrepresenting" President Hoover in his speeches, warned that this will be the most important election