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...United States and of Washington. . . . We hope that you will take to heart the prayer in the invocation for a just and honorable peace. . . . We are getting closer all the time . . . but we must have the support of all those organizations that stand for God and a moral code in the world...
Honor, expressed in a college-wide policy on examinations, is the cornerstone of the Virginia gentlemen's code. No proctors have been required at Virginia finals since Judge Henry St. George Tucker of the law school proposed the pledge now submitted to all exam-takers beginning: "I do hereby certify that I have derived no assistance during the time of this examination from any source whatever." Today without a signature to this document a paper is automatically failed...
...immigrant had arranged a code with his friends before returning to the promised land. "I will send a picture," he told them. "If I am well off, I will be standing. If things are going badly with me, I will be sitting down." The first snapshot to arrive showed the sender lying flat on the ground...
...hastened to the fort. That led to a court-martial and thorough humiliation of the high-strung young officer. His trial brought out other charges. He had once abandoned a detachment of his troops to annihilation by Indians (an unpardonable sin in the Army's Indian-fighting code). Custer was sentenced to loss of rank and pay for one year. Dr. Hawley's analysis of the effect on Custer: "The giant had been stabbed in the back by pygmies. His pride had been severely wounded, and the wound festered, leaving an ugly scar. This scar could be made...
...rough stone, thatch-roofed shepherd's cabin-was opened as a shelter for picnickers. And at Ste. Anns, Inverness County, 3,000 Scots from Nova Scotia's clans swarmed onto a high bluff overlooking the Gulf of St. Lawrence for the ninth annual Gaelic Mod (rhymes with code)-a festival of Celtic folklore and culture...