Word: abraham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Oliver La Farge '24, of New York city, was elected secretary; John Adams Abbott '25, of Lincoln, was added to the Literary Board; and George Lindsley Stearns '25, of Cambridge, and Stephen Abraham Koshland '25, of Boston, to the Business Board...
Unfortunatly, just more desire for knowledge is not usually a sufficient stimulus to learning. Abraham Lincoln can hardly be cited as the "typical American youth." Most students, when they are given books, must be personally instructed how to get the greatest benefit from them, and reading lists or "correspondence" will prove only partially satisfactory. Aside from the real difficulties in the way of the lonely student, there are apt to arise dozens of minor discouragements which are now met by suggestions from friendly roommates, instructors, or advisors...
...statement in its preamble, but outsiders have pronounced it a poorly disguised attempt to rob the Indians of what little land they have left. And this, in spite of the possession by each chieftain of the tribe of a silver-headed cane--a gift received by his predecessor from Abraham Lincoln as a guarantee of ownership, for ever and ever...
...Joseph Abraham Cohen of Fall River...
...Perhaps Abraham, the father of his country, really did emigrate from Ur of Chaldea. And Noah might have been confused in his story: responsibilities aboard-ark must have made it difficult for him to scan the horizon with full care. Perhaps an unnoticed house-top floated away with a pair of lucky occupants to another valley, saving the Sumerian branch of the family to carry on the tradition in Babylonia...