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...believe excuse the examination system as it exists today, with all its psychological brutality and its inadequacies, as a standard of cultural measurement. When one considers the recent statement of the New York World that "examinations are a pretty sorry way to test knowledge and absurdly out of joint with the modern world," he is forced to admit that on the face of things the opinion might hold water...
Because of the great success of the joint concert of the Harvard Glee Club and the Princeton University Chapel Choir on April 6 of last year, the Glee Club has been invited again this year to sing with the Princeton Chapel Choir on Sunday, April...
Princeton graduates, moreover, have been the recipients of letters asking them to support both in attendance and spirit a joint Harvard-Princeton concert at Jordan Hall on April 9. Nothing closer concerning the concert could be learned...
...Deciding that joint congressional receptions were too crowded, President & Mrs. Hoover set a precedent by holding a reception for members of the House and their ladies alone. Present for the first time at a White House function-although his wife's attendance at a White House tea two years ago caused a ruction-Representative Oscar De Priest, Chicago Negro, shook hands with the President, retired with Mrs. De Priest to the East Room, leaving to the other guests the option of speaking to or ignoring them. Mrs. De Priest was gratified when Secretary Lament's wife, a fellow...
Forthwith the Alabama House of Representatives passed a joint resolution declaring that: "The said J. Thomas Heflin has during the greater part of his tenure of office . . . made Alabama the laughing stock of the Union by his bigotry, lack of religious tolerance and the lack of many of the courtesies expected between one gentleman and another." The resolution expressed "condemnation of the very poor sportsmanship exhibited in being unwilling to admit like a man that he was defeated in a fair election...