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...Just as the Republican victory in Maine this year was a tremendous expression of the people's choice of a straight-forward Republican administration, and all that it means toward the issues and problems of today," said the Honorable Mr. Frederic H. Parkhurst, Governor-Elect of Maine, yesterday, in a special interview for the CRIMSON, "so am I looking for another such expression in the coming national elections." Mr. Parkhurst was at one time a member of the Maine House of Representatives and before his election this year was President of the Maine Senate. He also served many years...
...which we cannot afford to forget, and the only way we can profit by what we have learned is to have universal military training. Military service has awakened in our young men a great feeling of patriotism and service. It has given them confidence in themselves, and made them straight-forward, virile, and honest. I feel sure that the decrease in crime resulting from universal military service would more than cover the cost of training. If all our young men could have a year in the army, I believe that the I. W. W.'s, Bolsheviks, and their like would...
...these examples plainly indicate the absurdity of using words merely for the effect of their sounds. What applies in editorial writing applies in the every day college course. No matter whether it is in English composition or Greek translation, if one can tell his story in straight-forward language, instead of ranting about a "virulent obsession," one has a much better opportunity of gaining his instructor's good will...
...laboratory equipment now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will be restored or made fully available, and the teachers now on leave will return. The work will soon be on a normal basis as to staff and plant. The new school is not an educational experiment but a straight-forward, well defined plan based on long experience and put into effect by an unusually complete and exceptionally able staff of teachers...
...field work until towards the end. And yet he never stood upon the platform of Sanders Theatre to make even a simple announcement without prolonged hand clapping. Few commanding officers have made such a quick, positive, unanimous appeal to the men under them. He was simple, alert, intelligent, straight-forward, kind, with fire and spirit underneath ready to enforce obedience, if it was possible that anyone could ever disobey him. Many a young officer in France today is the better for having as his ideal of what an American officer should be Lieutenant Colonel Shannon. The graduates of the Harvard...