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Senator Furnifold McLendel Simmons of North Carolina, oldtime Democratic State leader, now a bitter anti-Smithite. renewed his fight with a three-hour speech at Raleigh...
President Coolidge celebrated the close of his fifth year in office with a short railroad trip. It is only about a three-hour journey from Cedar Island lodge to a place called Hibbing in the Minnesota hinterland. Thither the President journeyed in a special train provided by U. S. Steel Corp., a train that had been examined and guarded with utmost care for 48 hours before its great passenger went aboard. Steel Corporation guards were posted at switches and trestles. Some 700 American Legion men were mobilized for guard duty at stations. No spectator was allowed to approach within...
...have troubles enough without letting the public gape at the results of my lectures." So complained a Yale English professor the other day as some of his students set out to maul Harvard in a three-hour skirmish on the field of English literature...
...three-hour examination on English literature, prepared by a committee consisting of Professor C. G. Osgood of Princeton, two Harvard professors, and two Yale professors, will be taken simultaneously at Cambridge and New Haven by the contestants. The neutral judges, Professor Osgood, Professor A. K. Potter of Brown and Professor J. O. Adams of Cornell, will decide on the award of the prize. The victorious team will win for its college library $5000 worth of books, besides which individual prizes will be given to the members of the team...
...football team which a few years ago attained national renown should have a moment of prayer before each game, there is surely no reason why the common run of undergraduates, about to enter a three-hour struggle not with their equals in ability but with examiners of far superior mentality to theirs, should not seek strength for the unequal contest. There can be no question, furthermore, but that the proper frame of mind, which many seek by prolonged slumbers or revelry the night before, can be more quickly obtained in the cloistered quiet of the chapel. In the Ecclesiastes there...