Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first to be a skillful organizer and an indefatigable worker. Under his direction, a scheme which might have aroused much opposition was carried out without friction and with enthusiastic support from the great majority of the faculty and the undergraduate body. The pioneering work which he did was a thing of permanent value and of great importance to the University...
...dealers in contraband goods. Those whom Dean Greenough has characterized as the "intellectual bootleggers" have once more made their appearance in Harvard Square with an entirely new line of surreptitious aids for the backward student. The old style of printed notes is evidently passe in the circles where such things are decreed and the very latest thing comes as a weekly magazine which "works while you rest...
Free democratic institutions, wrought painfully by the founding fathers, must not be jeopardized through the hasty words of an alien. What matter that any remarks of which Count Karolyi might care to unburden himself would be addressed to audiences already poisoned by open-mindedness? The principle is the thing, and the principle states boldly that America must be protected from foreign radicals. Beneficent councilors of state, acting on information secured through foreign agents, ascertain the exact color of the alien's political views, and if those views are a shade too pink, he shall not pass. Who does not shudder...
...naming of the erstwhile Holden Twins which has dragged over so many months has been accomplished at last not only with care but with inspiration. The name of a college building seems a trivial thing, but actually it is the cornerstone on which all its traditions must rest. Those who have never seen the structure will think of it always by its name, from which they will create their own impressions. Those who know it well will make the letters above the doorway stand for a multitude of feelings, call to mind a host of memories...
...been by local agents. Reports that Federal officers were actively engaged Saturday morning at the subway rotunda in opening suspicious suitcases. Commissioner Potters denied last night. "No, we aren't making a special drive to clean up Cambridge," he said. "It isn't worth the trouble; the thing that interests us is the source of supply...