Word: soap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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College is the preparation for the Battle of Life. We have heard the sentiment more than once. We subscribe to its validity, more or less. Therefore, does it not seem more profitable that we chew on the soap and rubbers of collegiate liberalism rather than that we be thrust, ignorant and untutored, into an unpaternal world of which we know nothing? Under a liberal policy in college, we may learn not to snap at old dogs' ears when we go forth into the world. And there, certainly, lies the value of a liberal tradition. F. W. GERHART '25. December...
...York City and afterwards was head of the American Parish Among Immigrants of the Presbyterian Church of New York.. I hasten to acquit any of these agencies for deliberate participation in my downfall. I am now editor of the 'World Tomorrow,' lecturer in the Rand School, Stump speaker, soap boxer and temporarily paroled in my own custody by the Mount Vernon police court. Mount Vernon does not refer to Washington's birthplace but to the city of that name which an unconstitutional ordinance against free speech. As I have learned today that a higher court declared the ordinance unconstitutional...
...fortunate that there are officials in this country who can tell a harmless radical from a bomb-thrower, who refuse to be swept into panic by the sight of a soap-box or a red banner. It is fortunate, too, that some of our courts have not forgotten that an alien, like anyone else, has his rights before the law--that he is to be judged innocent until he is proved guilty...