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...enough to include Rollins college in the above category of significant characteristics; this group will point with ill-disguised glee to the latest innovation of that institution. With all the ludicrous pomposity that misguided sincerity can impart, Rollins college has imposed on its personnel, both faculty and undergraduate, an oath that it will "strive for self-knowledge, self-reverence, and self-control." Searching for precedent, classicists discovered that a similar oath was exacted from the Athenian youth upon his entrance to manhood and civic life; the oath proceeds, "truth, courtesy, cheerful cooperation, and loyalty to Rollins...
...through the curious motions, minute by minute and detail by detail, of the real inaugural taking place in Washington. In Hampton's inaugural there may be a Franklin Delano Roosevelt. There is sure to be a Hampton Hoover, either as retiring president or president-elect. To administer the oath there will be a Hampton Chief Justice Hughes, "bearing as close a resemblance as possible. ..." There will be an Inaugural Parade, with "colorful and pleasing surprises." All is in charge of Isaac Fisher, general secretary of Hampton's Y. M. C. A., who put on a similar show...
...selected to be commencement speaker at the University of Pittsburgh, 300 students gave tongue against "militarism" (TIME, June 13). Three leaders who planned a pacifist demonstration were arrested, fined. Last week a higher court upheld them. Few days later, every matriculating Pittsburgh student was required to sign an oath of allegiance to the U. S. Constitution, the laws of Pennsylvania and the regulations of the University. Cried Business Manager John Weber: "We want right-minded students here...
Without even the formality of an oath Mr. McKee automatically succeeded to the $40,000 job of Mayor from his $25.000 position as President of the Board of Aldermen. The first day he arrived at City Hall by subway, worked eight hours in his shirtsleeves, took 35 minutes off for lunch alone at a soda-fountain restaurant. His job was not new to him; he had filled it often and well during the protracted junkets of fun-loving "Jimmy" Walker. A thrifty Scot, he promised to economize, to cut the $631,000,000 city budget to the bone. With...
Draping the Grand Cordon across his bosom, Provisional President Rodriquez hurried out to meet friends who were hurrying to tell him the good news. Exactly ten minutes after his election he stood before Congress, proceeded to take the oath : "I swear to observe and to have observed the political Constitution of the United States of Mexico and the laws emanating therefrom. I will loyally and patriotically fulfill the office of Provisional President of the republic, looking only and always to the welfare of the country. If I fail to do so, may the nation hold me responsible...