Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent meeting of the University Poetry Society plans of the year were formulated and the following officers were elected: President, Wolott Cott Treat '23, of Stockbridge; Secretary, Robert Thompson Pell '24, of Fort Ticonderoga, N. Y.; and Treasurer, Peter von Hotze Wooldridge '23, of Little Rock...
...best runners for the University were Burke, H. L. Pratt Jr. '23, and J. U. Harris '24, all of whom ran extremely well and ended with a strong finish. The meet was held over the six-mile West Rock course...
...Amster is chairman of the executive committee of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company, and a member of its board of directors. He also is president of the Citizens National Railway League...
...railroads are standing on a solid moral and legal rock when they ask that the provisions of the Transportation Act (which calls upon the Interstate Commerce Commission to so co-relate wages and rates as to yield 5 1-2 percent net on property values) should be carried out, and all the clamoring of greedy shipping interests for reduced freight rates and of purblind labor leaders for maintaining high war wages, could in my opinion have little effect on the situation. Conditions under which railroad operation would yield less than 5 1-2 percent net on property values, would...
...This is the firm foundation, the unshakable rock of Dante's faith", declared Professor Grandgent. "Hence came his courage and his power. Between our acts and our future joys and sorrows, he believed, there is unswerving correspondence; an exact balance is ordained between our sins and their punishment, between our merits and their rewards. As with the individual, so with society; if the world be wicked, it shall suffer; if it redeem itself, it shall be happy. As a basis of moral strength, neither science nor philosophy has yet invented a substitute for absolute faith in responsibility and justice...