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...Stanford we are willing to withstand an occasional whiff of hot air, in order to have the privilege of letting the Wind of Freedom blow. --The Stanford Daily...
...food there is good not unnaturally, it is better than that in the dining halls. The appointments of the room are adequate, and it is sufficiently stanch to withstand the assaults of the bawdy crowd which sometimes overruns it. But the one feature of the place which distinguishes and crowns it is the service afforded by the attendants. These attendants have aroused the curiosity of all who meet them. They are not only courteous; they go out of their way to help their customers; they are always cheerful, in spite of the pressure which a hurried group puts often upon...
...making an historic affirmation. . . . May the world, from such an affirmation, gain the conviction that the German people, in this battle for equality and honor, declare itself completely at one with the Government!" "Glory Bedecked Opponents." Cannily the Chancellor, who knows that Germany is in no condition to withstand a preventive war launched from France today, hailed in his speech "the French soldier, our old glory-bedecked opponent!" "I, together with all my followers, de-cline." he cried, "to conquer the people of a strange nation-who would not love us anyway. . . . "German youth is marching . . . not to demonstrate against...
...responsibility for unsound building construction. Architects reminded the Board of Education that no major earthquake had been officially anticipated, that in a desperate effort to house the county's rapidly expanding school enrolments, many new buildings had been walled with cheap veneers which simply could not withstand seismic shock...
...halcyon decades on an, annual five thousand dollars, and very gratifyingly accumulated a surplus of several times that amount through persistent prudence. This surplus might easily, have been used to keep in operation a valuable public services, of long utility to scholars, but the responsible authorities were unable to withstand the hasty economy virus, and abolished the entire department. Against such abortive practices as these school conferences have every right to register on indignant objection...