Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Simeon D. Fess, baldish Ohioan, Harding admirer, Hoover Keynoter, spent time during the week studying and explaining why Hoover would carry New York State. To the embarrassment of non-whispering Republicans he also explained: "This is the first time in history during a national political campaign that we have on one side all of the loose element of morals and on the other the very highest and best of morals...
...would be a rash man who would state that we are finally entering the industrial millennium, but there is a great ray of hope that America is finding herself on the road to a solution of the greatest of all her problems. That problem is to adjust our economic system to our racial ideals...
...true member of an institution-whether it be the family, church, state, party, or college-one must know its origin, history, traditions, and aims. With the growth of Harvard College, a large number of students whose fathers are not Harvard men, and the passing on of older generations, an increasing need has been felt for some effective way of making the history and traditions of the College better known to the incoming students. This need has been met for the first time this year by the apearance of a small booklet on "The History and Traditions of Harvard College" edited...
...critical attention of peculiar intensity. The healthiness of so constant an inward direction of the critical eyes has been doubted; it has even been named morbid, a kind of introversion. If this were so, the alumni themselves could be counted on to make the most of it. The state of mind that can result thus seems worthy of examination, and the presence of the class of 1932, already composite with three other stages of development, gives pertinence to some conjectures on the future of that class...
...fashion to define Harvard College swiftly, for Freshman instruction, and this is an impossible thing. But in the days when the epigram ruled the drawing-room someone said: "Boston is not a city, it is a state of mind." In its pristine application the truth is a waning one, perhaps, but refitted to that other shoulder of the New England tradition, Harvard College, it somes nearer to a summary than any epigram should...