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...extend our heartfelt sympathy to those unfortunates whom the hard decrees of a cruel fate and a more cruel faculty, doom to stay in Cambridge during the recess. As for those who reject the blessed privilege of leaving college for a few days,--who stay in Cambridge to grind we can only pity for their foolishness, and pass them by. To those whom no power without nor inanity within can keep in Cambridge, we wish the best of good times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Xmas Spirit 40 Years Ago Was Same as Today "Grind" Condemned--Receptions Given--Lampy Praised | 12/20/1924 | See Source »

...Authority for the Supreme Court to select and reject cases on its docket for consideration in accordance with their importance, in order to overcome the increasing congestion of the Supreme Court docket; authority for the Supreme Court to make rules improving and reforming the procedure in Federal Courts; appointment of a commission to reform and expedite procedure under the criminal code...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: A Message | 12/15/1924 | See Source »

Issue. As in the U. S. and Britain, there is a scarcity of issues in the German campaign. At the last election the paramount issue was acceptance or rejection of the Experts' Plan. At this election the Plan is a fait accompli and, with the exception of the Freedom Party and the Communists, every shade of political accepts, willingly or unwillingly, the necessity of supporting it. Reports that the Nationalists are hostile to the Plan and seek to reject it are mainly propaganda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Coming Elections | 11/3/1924 | See Source »

...that it is almost a general truth that religiously endowed universities can rarely see eye to eye with those not so endowed. Syracuse need not be surprised, therefore, if Harvard tuns an indifferent back upon Papini. Harvard's reaction to the entire book does not differ greatly from its rejection of Papini's major premise as stated in the introduction, that "He who accepts the four gospels must accept the four gospels must accept them wholly, entire, syllable by syllable, or else reject them from the first to the last and say: 'We know nothing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "TO WEIGH AND CONSIDER" | 10/28/1924 | See Source »

...believe that the country will reject all such illusory remedies, from whatever quarter they may be advocated. What it looks for and, from a Liberal Government, will secure, are sound administration, practicable reforms and freedom from constant appeals for its opinion upon fantastic proposals of the extremists on either side." (Message from H. H. Asquith to Scotland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMONWEALTH: The Coming Election | 10/27/1924 | See Source »

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