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Since, apparently, students like other people will not learn their lesson and drive slower at night when they're tired, keep they're hands off the wheel when they've been drinking, the simplest way out might appear to be to keep them from driving. That's what happened at Princeton after a whole series of crashes had so shocked the Nassau authorities that they removed the student's driving permission...
...gave his complete support to the liberal policies of the University, including its maintenance of academic freedom under Presidents Eliot, Lowell, and Conant. In the counsels of the University he contributed a hard-headed common sense, often expressed in a picturesque vernacular, that presented issues in their clearest and simplest form and aided greatly in arriving at sound conclusions...
...Westbrook Pegler: "The case of Mr. Pegler, 'that peril to placidity.' is simplest of all. Peg was bitten by an income tax while still a boy a few years...
...water. But no matter how little glycerine they used it would appear later in small beads on the surface of the plaster. Then they tried butyl alcohol (butanol) with the same ingredients. This worked, but made the plaster surface too soft to work on. The final formula was the simplest: equal parts of butanol and water. Muralist Rivera, pleased as Punch, confirmed their claim that spraying walls with this preparation every three or four hours enables a painter to work twice as long on one section or to apply plaster to twice as large an area of wall...
...purpose of getting back eight guns confiscated from the first prisoners. After a two-day attack the Fort ran up a white flag, surrendered the guns. In addition Commandant Grant agreed to evacuate the Fort altogether, acting on orders from General Gage, who considered it was the simplest...