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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that this financial pressure will bear more severely upon men of moderate means than upon the wealthy. It still thinks that such a situation is in accord neither with the spirit of democracy nor the traditional freedom of the undergraduate. It completely agrees that it will be a fine thing if the surroundings in the Houses will be such as to make a man want to take a majority of his meals there. Its contention merely centered around the point that a high weekly rate not only detracted from the attractiveness of the House Dining rooms but makes it appear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lack of Understanding | 12/12/1929 | See Source »

...dangerous by six beatings in a row. Nebraska 31, Iowa State 12. Georgia's little bulldogs put on the snarl they wore for Yale at the start of the season. Nice passes and a fake end run made them 12, Alabama 0. Kicks were the important thing in weather that made fingers too stiff to catch passes. Stevens's leg was a shade stronger than Joyce's. Syracuse 6. Columbia 0. By beating Muhlenberg 7-0, Western Maryland became the U. S. team that has won the most (ten), though not the hardest games. Sticking to straight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...decided that we must have a cat and, of course, the best cats hail from our native state. Accordingly, to Vermont we sent for a cat. A tiny tiger kitten arrived not long after we made our desires known. . . . When we took him out of the box . . . the little thing was so sleepy and tired from long hours . . . on the train that he toppled over drowsily and went to sleep at once." The kitten was named Bounder. He enjoyed playing with water (was apt to jump into tubs drawn for the Coolidges if they failed to watch him), delighted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Presidential Pets | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Seventh, I have never heard a wet who was willing to discuss the question: Would prohibition be a good thing, economically and morally, for the country if it were well enforced? That, after all, is the real question. Why not consider it in an honest and scientific spirit? A good beginning may be made by reading Sir Josiah Stamp's address before the British Society for the Study of Inebriety on October...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CARVER SUPPORTS HOOVER'S DRY PLEA | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...general view that Russell holds in philosophy is that scientific method is the only thing man can rely on for knowledge about the world and, consequently, that the most substantial ingredients of philosophy are those parts closely related with experience of physical nature. This includes the analysis of perception and the constitution of the physical world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BERTRAND RUSSELL TO GIVE LECTURE MONDAY | 12/7/1929 | See Source »

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