Word: respondents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This is a brief statement, but during these closing days of the campaign there will be other occasions when I shall address the citizens of Cambridge at greater length. In the meanwhile, I am glad to have this occasion to respond to the request of the CRIMSON, and to urge all its readers who are voters in Cambridge to come to the polls on Tuesday, November 7, between the hours of 6 A.M. and 6 P.M. and register their votes in the cause of good government...
Probably no more than 20 or 30 at most would make use of each House dining hall. To do so is considerably more expensive, since a House lunch costs $.50, and that provided at Phillips Brooks House $.18. But even if the number to respond were small, the extension of a blanket eating privilege to non-residents would seem unwise. The establishment of regular, narrow, eating cliques in the Houses is to be avoided, as contrary to the purposes of the plan. Were the nonresidents suddenly given eating privileges, the result might be the introduction of an unassimilated clique into...
...were exchange professors, grants for study abroad, Olympic games since 1896, and gatherings of savants, clerymen, laity, and diplomats to discuss concerns ranging from postal rates to tuberculosis. Men in the trenches had even grimmer human contacts. Yet if the bureaucracies were to decide for war, the nations would respond, and it would be the students who would occupy the trenches hacking at each other. An Oxford Union man would command a bombing squadron, American students who signed the Brown Daily Herald pledge to renounce war would man the machine guns, and athletes who shook hands over the net would...
...week, Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson, Democratic leader of the upper House and a principal Presidential spokesman at the Capitol, uprose to declaim: "The Nazi administration has startled and shocked mankind by the severe policies enforced against Jews. ... It is sickening and terrifying to realize that a great people should respond to impulses of cruelty and inhumanity which when they have spent their force will have lowered German civilization in the opinion of all people...
...Allen Overstreet, head of the Philosophy Department at the College of the City of New York, iconoclastically told a Child Study Association meeting that Casabianca, the 13-year-old boy who stood on the burning deck whence all but he had fled, was a "moron without sense enough to respond to a new situation...