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Overnight, Jim Jeffries became the first of a series of "white hopes," toward whom the prizefight gentry looked to uphold the "superiority of the Caucasian race...
...Heretofore, Harvard picked a president to please the alumni, the faculty, the student body, and one who could be relied upon to uphold the American tradition of freedom of inquiry, freedom of criticism, and the freedom to make honest mistakes...
...Student Council last night voted to uphold tradition as it overwhelmingly quashed attempts to supply Radcliffe cheerleaders at varsity and freshman basketball games...
...continued to maintain at least nominal sway over what remained of high society. At the 1949 opening of the Metropolitan Opera, she appeared in a wheelchair, persuaded to suffer this discomfort by a friend's remark that Queen Mary was upset because "so few were left to uphold traditions...
...teaching profession who claims the privilege when teachers are the subject of investigation tends to cast discredit on the profession as a whole. Even when he has a clear legal right to refuse to testify, a teacher should weigh against his own self-protection his colleagues to help uphold the standing of his and their profession...