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...precedent that bids fair to have great future importance in the spread of higher learning. The award of degrees to the savants, at which the president pledged the university to the maintenance of the free educational tradition, marked the climax of the year, for in a sense the torch of learning was taken up by new rumors and carried on toward the future. And, even more tickling than the great events within the university, was the political debacle of the man who, more than anyone else, has stood athwart the free educational stream, the present Governor of the Commonwealth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: END OF THE CHAPTER | 11/7/1936 | See Source »

...election demonstration at Yale featured by a torch-light procession will precede the Harvard-Yale debate at New Haven six days before the election, on Wednesday, October 28 when the two teams will discuss the subject "Resolved: That this House favors the election of Governor Alfred M. Landon as President of the United States." A crowd of 400 Yale undergraduates and others are expected to attend the debate there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TORCHLIGHT PARADE TO PRECEDE CRIMSON--ELI DEBATE AT NEW HAVEN | 10/22/1936 | See Source »

...some time on Broadway. "I like to play with Ethel Merman, who wouldn't? And say, if you come to see the show Friday or Saturday, you'll hear her sing one swell song. It's called "In the Depths on the Ninetieth Floor" and is the torch song to replace "Bad Influence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schnozzle Cuts Gags from College Cut Ups; Stage Star Shows He Knows All | 10/16/1936 | See Source »

...learning's torch is lighted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "WE'LL STAND AT THE BAR" | 9/29/1936 | See Source »

...this day of modern witch burning, when freedom of thought has been exiled from many lands which were once its home, it is the part of Harvard and America to stand for the freedom of the human mind and to carry the torch of truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cambridge Birthday | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

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