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...well assume that the participants will engage merely out of love for free competition and the clean hard joy of listening to Helen Kane. Captious persons may always point to the promoters of such schemes as the real profiteers, but it is to be hoped that no such stigma should be attached to a firm which has done so much for appreciation of music in and around Harvard Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HIGHER THE FEWER | 4/18/1929 | See Source »

...allowing a man to make use of the stipend for but two years the committee removes the stigma from those who find it necessary or desirable not to return for a third years. In many cases the type of education offered at Oxford is bound to vary from that expected or desired by the candidate who comes from a country of different traditions and standards. Two years should be sufficient to determine the possible value of a third, and if during this time the student finds that he has reaped all possible profit, it is unfortunate that the force...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VISION AND REVISION | 4/16/1929 | See Source »

...week punctuated his campaign against indecency (TIME, Dec. 31), in which he has already suppressed eleven books, with a Final Appeal. Addressing a meeting of British authors in London, he said: "If we all work together we may be able to do something to relieve our country of the stigma which is undoubtedly on it at the present time because of the outpouring of so much filthy literature. Gentlemen and ladies,† I appeal to our better selves! Let us cooperate to stop the flood of indecency which is being launched upon the world." Upon Alfred Emanuel Smith was conferred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 18, 1929 | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...Moral Welfare with 30 other temperance organizations "for a unified plan for observance of the 18th Amendment, in accordance with the wishes of the administration of President Hoover." The Anti-Saloon League was included in this Presbyterian announcement and the Presbyterians made it sound as though the political stigma that has long attached to the League's name was going to be submerged, by merging all Dry efforts in a purely educational campaign. "The cultivation of public opinion for law observance" is to be the slogan of the U. S. Drys, consolidated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Dry Hope | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...administrative board announced by Dean Hanford this morning, all undergraduates whose academic grades at the November reckoning averaged B or better may exercise the Dean's List privilege in regard to the extension of their Christmas holidays. This step is both wise and timely. It recognizes and removes the stigma of illegality from what has been a common practice among men who did not attain official Dean's List ranking at the January or June times of demarcation, but raised the record of their scholastic progress to the required level at November...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEAN'S LIST PRIVILEGE | 12/15/1928 | See Source »

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