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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Attired in green tulle and early restoration flannels the editors were formed in double file and with file and drum marched dinfully to the tune of "Deep River". Various campus police accompanied them on horseback with loaded black jacks. The whole affair was, to be mild, the most humorous thing which has transpired in good old Ipswitch since the time that the faculty cow called on the president. Indeed, such evidences of virility and originality lead us to believe that Ipswitch need be proud of those sons of hers who by virtue of wit and funniness have made the Piffle...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 3/19/1926 | See Source »

...time is devoted to the intensive study of English, which is the most difficult of all tongues. The aim of such thoroughness is to penetrate deeply into the very essence of English and American sprit and civilization, and to acquire a complete mastering of the language. Rather do one thing thoroughly than ten artificially is the viewpoint of the New German Reform Movement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Fritz Kellermann Contrasts German and American Methods of Scholarship-Believes Teutonic Standards to be the Higher | 3/16/1926 | See Source »

...promise to be more than ordinarily interesting, scheduled to be given at noon today, only the geometrical impossibility of keeping one indivisible body in more than one place at a given time prevents me from being present at Fine Arts 4a, Comparative Literature 11 and English 76. Probably the thing to do will be to follow closely after Professor Edgell when he leaves Emerson J for Robinson, where he will speak on Antonio da Lougallo the younger, and Boldassare Peruzzi Professor Babbitt will talk on the aesthetic letters of Schiller this noon in Harvard 5 and if only because...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 3/16/1926 | See Source »

...Duane requests more statistics that he may fortify himself further--statistics of Harvard men in the Cabinet, of Harvard men in the displomatic service, historical statistics for every branch of the government. It is evident that he has found a good thing and proposes to make the most...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAL DE MERE | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

Dean Pound also strongly emphasized the influence of religion on law. Religion, the kind that is much the same thing as ethics or morals, can further the idealistic element in the law. The modern church, though at present it may not have the full influence it should on the Principles and ideals of politics and law, could if it were moved by a deep and sincere religious enthusiasm, have the same effect in the developments of the future, that it had during the Reformation and the Puritanical movement. Dean Pound continued by stating that no absolute unity in Religion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POUND SEES NEW ERA IN DEVELOPMENT OF LAW | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

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