Word: signed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thinking and tied from within by the system of teaching to which it has adhered for a generation, the school which was once the brightest star in the Harvard firmament has suffered a threat to its supremacy. That the faculty has waked up to the dangers is an encouraging sign, but in planning any changes in legal education the committee should keep a weather eye out for their influence on the rest of the University, as the undergraduates of today are vitally affected by what happens in the law school of tomorrow...
...various systems in use at present range from what might almost be called the sublime in practicability and popular favor to the ridiculous. Leverett House relies on the good faith of its members to sign a pledge book in the library; caring not a whit, seemingly, how many members choose to donate anything. Lowell House capitalizes on its dances, relying on these profits for its funds, though the criticism is prevalent that such a method tends to cast too commercial a pallor over something that should be free from the money taint. Adams swings to the other extreme in demanding...
...Police last week found on a bridge over Salmon Falls River, where motorists cross from New Hampshire into Maine, a sign which read...
...internally divided that they were unable to attack His Majesty's Government on its policy of covert support of the Spanish White Armies (see p. 35) or on any other aspect of British foreign policy. The best Major Atlee and 40 Labor M.P.s could do was to sign a protest against the German Government's execution of a German Communist last week in Hamburg, and thus arouse individual British Labor sympathizers to chalk London Streets last week with anti-Nazi slogans and hurl bricks through the windows of new German Ambassador Joachim von Ribbentrop. Brick-throwing Laborite Miss...
Another trophy was a fragment of a marble sign, probably from the Library of Trajan, which bore this warning: "No book shall be taken out. We have sworn it! The library will be open from the first hour until the sixth...