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Inquisitor-I ask you whether you will be good enough to say to the committee whether or not the fact that you believe they did have influence was a circumstance that led you to select them. (Bickering from one of the committee's Democratic members...
Last week's elections cleared the way for next year's presidential campaign. Twelve solid months of national politics stretched ahead without break or turn. Down the perspective of time stood the following major political events in sequence: i) meetings of the two national committees this winter to select next year's convention cities;? 2) preferential primaries in 20 States, beginning early next spring to instruct delegations to national conventions for this or that presidential candidate; 3) covert and continuous scrambles in all States to control convention delegations; 4) a Republican national convention in mid-June at which Herbert...
...exhibition of letters and documents bearing on the public and private life of Lord Nelson is to be seen at present in the Treasure Room of the Harvard College Library. The letters cover a wide variety of subjects, ranging from orders concerning battle formations to select portions of his correspondence with Lady Hamilton. Among the most interesting things in the collection are the letters to prominent persons of Nelson's time in England and elsewhere...
...entrance requirements, too, differ entirely from the ones now in use. In 1820 the prospective student had to be: "Well versed in the grammar of the English, Latin and Greek languages; in 'Virgil', Cicero's 'Select Orations', 'Salust', 'The Greek Testament', Dalzel's 'Collectanea Graeca Minora', 'Latin and Greek Prosody', 'Arithmetick', and 'Ancient and Modern Geography...
...complete the personnel of the Freshman Tea Dance Committee, Borden and his associates will select ten members of the first year class to assist in the arrangements, to handle the sale of tickets, and to usher at the function...