Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...embodiment. The modern philosopher who regards all values in a relative light is condemned as a renegade and a disgrace to his high profession. Mr. Benda is finally imbued with a thoroughly anti-Teutonic point of view. Dispassionate modern history can scarcely be expected to accept so categorical a statement, for instance, as: "The clergy of the allied nations are eager to throw in the faces of the German clergy their union with injustice in 1914. They abuse their own good fortune in belonging to nation's whose cause happened to be just...
...This accomplished, she took most of the things away with her; the crisis of Ganna Walska's dresses and jewels dwindled into an almost entirely theoretical question of "women's rights." Harold McCormick, who by this time had gladly produced an affidavit corroborating his wife's statement that she lived abroad, was doubtless glad to see the rumpus dwindle, even after so hideous a sputter, to a conclusion that did not include a senate investigation or even a hanging...
...what station he was being assigned. Before the transfer each Captain submitted a report of conditions in his precinct, a resume of the reports of sergeants and patrolmen under him. Following the transfer the new incumbents of each station were to be allowed a week to prepare a similar statement. Mayor Mackey planned to subject these reports to comparative analysis. "It will thus occur to the Captains," he said, "that their future in the police service will depend upon the accuracy and truth of the reports." Mayor Mackey was photographed...
...first recipient of the Harvard Athletic Association special merit medal is to be awarded to E. L. Farrell, University track coach, according to a statement made at the H. A. A. offices last night. The special merit medal, a form of award created last spring, is intended to be given in recognition of a specially meritorious service to the Athletic Association in cases where some other award such as a letter or other insignia cannot properly be made. The award of this medal has never yet been made...
...Potter also made the statement that the Freshman Library now located on Holyoke St. near Gore Hall, as well as the history library of the Lower Reading Room in Widener were to be transferred to the Boylston Laboratory building where they will, in all probability, occupy the main floor. This merging of the possessions of the two libraries has all obvious advantages in facilitating the acquisition of history texts...