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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...give school books to all school children of the state, so as to get them in the schools and cure illiteracy. 2) We began to open up night schools for adults, so that we might teach the people from 20 to 70 years how to read and write and spell. We have already turned over thousands of people from illiteracy to literates by this process. 3) This administration turned the State Penitentiary from an institution losing a million dollars a year, to an institution making money. 4) That over the opposition of all the Ring newspapers and all the oldtime...
Perhaps the fact that college years begin in the fall has something to do with it too. The adjectives applied to autumn weather--crisp, brisk, stimulating--are always suggestive of activity. Who knows what the effect would be if the opening came during that first warm spell when spring fever is rampant? In the midst of February slush when even the boardwalks in the Yard are under water or during an ill-timed March blizzard the Vagabond may long for Palm Beach or Honolulu, but at the first touch of fall he is glad to be in New England. There...
Voohnmad Sirs: Surely the signature to the enclosed is ficticious. Spell it backward and consider the result in connection witht he context of the letter. It cannot be merely a coincidence. It smacks of the recent Harvard hymn. I hope you didn't print it knowingly. M. L. HAVEY New York City...
...Canada, Canadian and U. S. newspapers would tersely refer to it as the B.A.A.S.. or "British Ass." South African papers last week avoided abbreviation, for a great part of the population there is Dutch and still hate their British conquerors and masters. In their tongue B.A.A.S. would spell revolting baas, "master," "boss...
...galleries bulged with humble music-lovers. In the boxes were the Italian Ambassador, Mme. Melba, Prince & Princess Bismarck, Margot, Countess of Oxford & Asquith, Lady Cunard, Lords Leesdale, Colebrooke and Monteagle, and onetime King Manuel of Portugal and his consort. . . . From top to bottom Covent Garden yielded itself to the spell of a glorious voice, forgot all traditions, burst into riotous applause. The third act brought another demonstration...