Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...system would go a long way toward the accomplishment of this purpose. At present many advisers are professors otherwise engaged, chiefly interested in advanced scholastic work, and unable to give their advisees sufficient time. They are often men unconnected in any way with Freshman life and hence unable to understand its problems...
...Carolina's Dry Senator Cameron Morrison threw the meeting into wild confusion with another loud speech along the same line. His attacks on Chairman Raskob for injecting Prohibition into the meeting brought boos and hisses from the audience. Angrily he exclaimed: "Oh, your jeering methods, your hisses! But understand you'll never tie the Democratic party down to death and destruction for lack of men who scorn your hisses and defy your unfair methods. . . . If the Democracy would cease this foolishness over liquor we could go forward to a great triumph...
...quite conscious of this great dignity, of this great honor you do me. I know the background of a senate chamber. I know that the members of this body realize what it is to be a senator, when you go back and understand and recall what a senate was in ancient Rome. . . . When the barbarians entered Rome and saw the senate in session they thought first of all that they were simply nothing alive, but statues in marble, so dignified were they...
...offered for a genuinely great man to be called to in order to fill the position of Dean of the Chapel or a similar office of religious leadership. Besides there will be appropriate arrangements for smaller services, so there could be evening ones as well as morning, for I understand that in the present plans the cathedral type will be used having a nave for larger services and a Choir for smaller groups to gather in on weekdays...
...difficult to understand why the Administration is in favor of the project. Certainly the faculty cannot be in hearty support of these plans. There has been graduate opposition, and undergraduates are unanimously in the negative. The answer seems to be that there is sufficient graduate finance. $800,000 has been raised, and can be used only for a War Memorial. It is palpably undesirable to return this fund. But it is possible, with a little patience and foresight, for the Administration to convince the alumni that a far more suitable memorial might be erected...