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...charitable course for the authorities to withhold full measure of punishment and condemnation until the students as a community once more see things in the same light as themselves. How they will attain, this enlightenment remains to be discovered. ... A man who is convicted by the dean's office of cheating and leaves college under the stigma of that hideous word takes on an aspect of moral guilt which his companions ... do not of their own accord inflict. . . . Certainly a man's honor in the world is bitterly lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cheating at Yale | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

Down on his knees before "Little Otto" went Albrecht last week, renounced all his claims to the throne, swore fealty. "I know, sire," said he, "that you will attain your majority in a few months, and, as I am leaving for South America, I thought it fit to pledge my devotion to Your Majesty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Otto Uber Alles | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

...soon attain to virtue, Each man respecting himself; For no one can hurt you--They'll not disconcert you--If you sleep on a five-foot shelf...

Author: By R. N. C. jr., | Title: THE CRIME | 5/13/1930 | See Source »

...Carney 31 of Milwaukee. Wisconsin and D. B. Washington. D C on behalf of the United States. Printed cases and counter-cases may be obtained in langdell Hall today according to Professor Manley O Hudson Bemis Professor of International law who is in charge of the attain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Canadians Oppose Two Americans in Court Room Argument Over Sinking of "I'm Alone" at Law School Tonight | 5/6/1930 | See Source »

Dealing in their arguments largely with political, legal, and social conditions, the Harvard speakers used points based upon temperance as the desired end, and spoke of practical means to attain it. The Harvard speakers, who spoke a trifle more informally than the Yale debaters, were as follows: J. M. Swigert '30, P. C. Reardon '32, and Dwight Cooke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROHIBITION INSPIRES SEARCHING DISCUSSION | 5/1/1930 | See Source »

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