Word: retains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your "figures, figures" anent the worth of John D. Rockefeller's weight in gold fall flat before one who knows gold. Perhaps you retain some of the old prejudice against Standard Oil, and so rate him down to 16¼ carats or $14.00 per oz., which would bring his pounds to just about your figure of $204.09 each, but one is inclined to consider his vast benefactions and his late judgment of Col. Stewart, and give him the full 24 carat rating of 1000 fine...
...discrepancy between these well defined groups of students, separated here only by the loose candidature for distinction thus steadily grows, official recognition of the gap cannot be too distant an eventuality. The complete reservation of the Reading Period and the Tutorial System for the students who elect honors and retain their position with honor grades, may or may not be possible and desirable. But with the experiments with the Junior college, with classification of entrants, with such a pronouncement as that of the Yale council, acceptance of the obvious, in short., that freedom is stimulation and opportunity for the capable...
Exceptions to this rule will be made for married students and for men who have already engaged apartments for next year. These students will be allowed to retain their leases...
...academic innovation, and under an elaborate figure suggests the Sophoclean maxim that it is unwise to call any man happy until he has safely passed his final goal. Those who have followed Lampy's course will catch the hint that there are still a few, at any rate, who retain doubts about the success of the Harvard experiment. But the scepticism is good-humored, and the point is not pressed home...
Monsieur Londres claims that the masters of white slaves cannot and do not retain them against their wills; but explains that the women sink rapidly into acceptance of their voluntary enchattlement and permit themselves to be transferred by purchase and sale...