Word: adds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fill the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry at Harvard during the academic year of 1932-33. Cynics may remark that Mr. Eliot possesses a rare combination of qualities in that he is at once an Eliot, a Harvard graduate, and by choice, a British subject. They may add that this combination is exactly the one which would appeal to certain prejudices rooted in the academic mind. But the fact remains that he is a man of extraordinary talents and that he is, despite his present conservatism, not quite the type which usually receives official recognition. Once a satirist...
...This will acknowledge your note of inquiry of recent date. I had read the article in TIME with a good deal of amusement. I could not add surprise, as I have been in politics too long to be surprised when misquoted or misrepresented. I suppose I have too much sense of humor to be puritanical concerning a joke. The story in TIME was inexact. For instance I did not make a speech and I never made a speech in Montreal, and of course, I did not in Montreal or elsewhere say 'To hell with Mr. Volstead...
...collies called such names as "Lord Wellesley" and "Ladybird Holyoke." Her motto for her students is "Poise, Purpose & Perseverance"?corrupted behind her back into "Poise, Poipose & Poiseverance." To this last week the first woman in the world to sit officially in a major international conference could add Peace. Declared Delegate Woolley...
...would be of no commercial use. It would give water different spectral color, new physical properties, but would not affect the taste. But since its nucleus is the simplest yet found consisting of more than one particle it would be a great aid in the study of nuclei, might add to data on the cosmic ray which Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan thinks is the energy re-leased by the building up of elements in the universe...
...from time to time experimented in cover set-ups;-- all this and much more with varying success. On the whole, the best that one can say of the Advocate is that it has been consistently alive and magnetic (however its choice of material): and that, I honestly add, is saying a good deal. (If you don't believe me, cf. all other college literary magazines...