Word: true
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question became further tangled when Representative James O'Connor of Louisiana, with true Celtic pride and vigor, sought official recognition for St. Brandan and "a number of Irish heroes" as the first voyagers, in the Sixth Century, to the new land across the ocean...
...system. Conferring a degree upon one senior and refusing to confer a degree upon another means that the authorities of Harvard College believe that the one senior has obtained a better education than the other senior. But with the existing inequalities among the departments it is not always true that the senior who is given a degree has obtained a better education (in the broad sense of the word) than the senior from whom a degree is withheld. Thus the system may frequently do a grave injustice to a senior, only because he has chosen the harder path...
...schools we have to consider the hundreds from further schools and the hundreds working their way through. The associations of the Freshman class is what makes all the difference to many of them. Had their experience of college been limited to one particular "House" they could not have a true conception of Harvard...
Last week Dean Meeks heard that Burton Kenneth Johnson, 22, son of a Chicago dentist, had won the 1929 Prix de Rome in Architecture-third to be given to a Yale student in the past five years. True, Architect Johnson first went to Yale last fall, after four years architectural study at the University of Illinois, where he won honorable mention in last year's Prix Competition. But the honor of tuning him to prize-winning pitch was Yale...
Aged Clarence Darrow debated prohibition in Washington, prior to sailing to Bad Nauheim, Germany, for heart-trouble cure.* His opponent was Dr. Clarence True Wilson (Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals). Lawyer Darrow fascinated his audience by such outbursts as "Methodists are not good Christians. . . . They rule by hate- not love. Their methods are assassination, starvation, intimidation, preferably assassination...