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...Cornell Willard Fiske gave books, money, a building for a splendid library. Cornell teams were invincible. Year after year Cornell crews swept the river at Poughkeepsie. Then it was no slur to be called "Cornell of the West." Into the 20th Century, under able president Jacob Gould Schurman, Cornell vigor continued unabated, Cornell reputation high...
...Cattle-herding of U. S. convicts has reached such a pass in the last nine months that the Department of Justice hesitates to enforce criminal statutes with more than routine vigor...
With an alert memory he prepares his speeches with his wife, delivers them on the Senate floor with slashing vigor. His oratory is spoiled by a crudity of voice and diction. He does not often enter rough-&-tumble Senate debate. Unlike blind Georges Scapini of the French Chamber of Deputies (TIME, April 7) he has never been known to sway his colleagues at any critical time or on a matter of great moment...
Where the Wet-and-Dry lobby investigation will lead, how deeply below the surface it will cut, how much light or heat it will generate depends largely upon the interest, vigor and ardor of the Senate's five lobby chasers, one Wet (Wisconsin's Senator Elaine) and four Drys (Senators Caraway of Arkansas, Robinson of Indiana, Borah of Idaho, Walsh of Montana...
...historic display. The National League of Women Voters held a great banquet in Manhattan at which Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Honorary President of N. L. of W. V. and second only to the late great Susan Brownell Anthony as a feminist, flayed men voters with all her old vigor of presuffrage days...