Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reform movement in football failed to promote faculty action. The American Association of University Professors, meeting in New York, has agreed publicly that the present tendency to over accentuate the importance of intercollegiate football is a factor in unbalancing university life. Apparently the members of the Association in their statement of the ills concomitant with football have added a chapter to the book of college myths. For football has not corrupted the undergraduate mind. Nor should football be blamed for the fancies of its fans. Those are not intrinsic parts of that game. Yet the professional mind...
...reading TlME for April 5, I found on p. 10, col. 2, a certain statement concerning the education of Raymond T. Maker. In that statement it reads: "and the slightly more sophisticated Leland Stanford University," comparing it with the University of Nevada. I realize that there are colleges and universities in California which overestimate themselves, but I think that Stanford does not deserve that adjective applied...
...further established himself as a vigorous enforcer by sending to Congress a prepared statement promising virtual extinction of present liquor supply if the $3,000,000 additional requests by President Coolidge were granted. And he outlined plans for a border patrol of 12 000 men to keep out Canadian liquor...
...Teeth. Under the slogan "British Teeth Are Best", London dental supply firms issued a plaintive bulletin last week advocating a tariff on artificial teeth, in which occurred the statement: "Nearly every British false-tooth wearer has one or more American teeth in his mouth...
Friends of the Judge chuckled to recall that his age has been kept out of the U.S. "Who's Who." Inquisitive persons who perused that work, last week, were rebuffed by the statement that he was born "on father's farm nr. Wheaton, Ill." son of "Erastus and Susan" Gary...