Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Censure. Two legislative days later the Norris resolution came before a gravely hushed Senate. Arose Senator Bingham, again to speak in self-defense, this time softly, tactfully. His defense: Senators hire their "cousins, sons and daughters" as clerks and nobody complains; he made no profit by the employment of Lobbyist Eyanson; a Senator alone can judge his ethics. His only error, as he saw it, was his failure to notify his colleagues of what he had done. Insisted Senator Bingham: "Nothing dishonorable or disreputable was attempted. . . . My motives were based on my wholehearted zeal for a protective tariff...
...typical Harvard man belongs to the restricted, self-centered New England type; the average Michigan undergraduate is more polished, less unwilling to speak to his friend across the street, closer in his contact with fellow students...
...When we speak of a snob, we mean one who can act as an individual, who can deviate from the footsteps of the crowd, and not care what other people think. I admire Harvard for going its own way without trying to curry favor. It is a highly self-sufficient institution, not trying to follow the crowd. It does things as a gentleman. It does not have individual snobbishness in the ordinary sense of the word. Snobbery is one of the oldest Harvard traditions; a genuine snob will be either reactionary or radical, not conservative or liberal...
Professor Robert E. Rogers '09 of the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will speak tonight on "The Credo of Snob", with particular reference to Harvard men, at the Harvard men, at the Harvard Liberal Club. The meeting will be open to members of the University at 7 o'clock...
This afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in the Lecture Room of the Old Fogg Art Museum, Professor Wolfgang Liepe of the University of Kiel, Germany, will open a series of six lectures in German. Professor Liepe, who is Visiting Lecturer on German Literature during the first half-year, will speak on "The Theatre in Germany" in the first four of his lectures, and will discuss certain personalities in the last...