Word: remaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chose. After a time when they began to bray in protest, he allowed them to nibble his succulent provender. The New Deal has now created some 70,000 Federal jobs outside the Civil Service and cries of "too much patronage" are now rising louder & louder. But hungry Congressmen remain unsatisfied. Last week as prelude to a House caucus on patronage six Democrats headed by Speaker Byrns marched into the White House to inform President Roosevelt that Representatives were not getting proper service on their requests for patronage, that one prominent official had actually insulted patronage-seekers by telling them...
Details of the Eleusinian ceremonies remain wreathed in shadow. From inscriptions, works of art, and allusions of old chroniclers and dramatists it appears that the mystae or votaries made annual pilgrimages from Athens, watched some sort of passion play, witnessed a parade of holy objects, heard a discourse by a hierophant. The cult was centred around a legend of the Goddess Demeter, who sorrowed for her abducted daughter, searched for her, sat by a sacred well...
...must be remembered that the rash in the mild, isolated endemic cases-and especially among children-may be so slight and transient that often it is not noticed at all by the physician unfamiliar with the disease. For this reason, until typhus becomes epidemic, individual cases may often remain unrecognized...
...facing the question of Language Requirements during the next few weeks, the Faculty Council is forced to decide whether the University will descend to culturally-low standards of inferior schools, or if it will remain as one of the strong-holds of liberal arts education in the United States...
Harvard is no longer the best school for prospective government officials. There is no reason however to advocate increased emphasis on efficient college training, for government service so that we can "beat Princeton," but rather that Harvard may remain, consistent in her determination to impart to her students not only the wisdom of the ages but the freshness of today...