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Wagner was totally incapable of seeing the other side of anything. With superb, domineering egotism, he was wont to summon his own witnesses, marshall his own facts, present them himself, give a verdict in his own favor...
...Princeton 34; Harvard 0." This little upset in the Harvard athletic world is not, as has been said, a University calamity. It is just a straw; just the first of a series of vivid eye-openers, which will summon the vast and loving army of Harvard graduates to the colors, for the desperately-needed battle against indifference. Fair Harvard must be more than "only fair...
Sitting in Chicago's Federal Building, with all the power of a court to swear witnesses and take testimony, these investigators proceeded to summon the chairmen and treasurers of the three leading parties. The Committee was resolved that "every line of inquiry" should be followed, that its reports should "not deal with lump totals, but with detailed contributions and expenditures...
...ability to summon up a catalogue of facts, as from a bottomless well, that marks the educated man from the uneducated. It is the capacity to use facts and see their relations. Thus among Harvard undergraduates who are keenly alive to the present, those events in the past which bear upon the present interest them in proportion to this relation. When Tottel's Miscellany appeared, or who the first Merovingian king was, may be required in a course, but after the examination it is so much deadwood, and as such is speedily forgotten. Four years of plowing through courses...
Taggart's Motion. When the 77th was finished, Chairman Walsh recognized Tom Taggart, ex-Senator boss of Indiana. He moved that after the end of that day's balloting, Mr. Walsh and Cordell Hull, Chairman of the National Committee, summon representatives of all the candidates together to work out a solution. Without a dissenting vote, the motion was carried. Immediately Senator King of Utah moved adjournment. That, too, was carried...