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...that this important and interesting phase of the field is neglected almost completely, and the examinations instead of stimulating breadth of view, become another of the annoying duties attendant upon the gaining of a degree. In order to give these studies their proper significance the examinations should be split into two or three groups. The Bible and the Shakespeare reading should be tested in the Sophomore year and the ancient authors in the Junior year, none of the exams coming until the term is fairly well advanced. The student would thus be able to prepare intelligently for these examinations under...
...possible in the House of their choice, and a desire to make each House as representative as possible of the College as a whole. Groups of men who apply together will be considered as a unit, and, if admitted, will be assigned to one House and in no case split among the Houses...
...cheering section sing "Bright College Years" he cried out: "Why the Elis! They sing my Wacht am Rhein!" Scion of the great Connecticut and Massachusetts family of Sedgwick and the famed art-printers of Munich, he made the good Harvard clubs. But his Harvard loyalty and his German patriotism split badly in 1915 when he raised his cheerful bellow in Manhattan's Harvard Club in celebration of the sinking of the Lusitania and was asked to resign. When the U. S. went to war Hanfstaengl was in Manhattan tending the family's branch store and could...
From his first major defeat the President could pluck a few bits of comfort. The waterway project split the ranks of both parties, and votes were determined mainly by sectional issues. Said Funnyman Will Rogers: "Every Senator voted against it if it didn't run by his house." Although he had pressed firmly for the treaty's ratification the President did not at the last moment roll up his sleeves and try to whip reluctant Senators into line. Even Leader Robinson made no stirring final appeal. Because it has more important measures to ram through, the Administration refrained...
...Party's "Socialist pledges in behalf of the workers." Lined up against him were the three Laborites who finally made common cause with the Conservatives and survived Labor's great fall in 1931: MacDonald, Philip Snowden and James Henry ("Jim") Thomas. The two factions in the Cabinet split wide on Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley's plan to break unemployment by huge public works plans. Old George was for it; the Three against it. They split wider on unemployment insurance payments. Snowden, speaking of "treasury difficulties and impaired credit," favored increasing the premiums or reducing the benefits...