Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taken Greek, is a polite name for the canine minded. For only a dog can keep his nose so close to the scent that he does not in some fashion appreciate sunset and saints and symbols. But in spite of the bad lineage which this word must admit, it still remains popular, not alone at tea parties where to be a cynic is to be lionized, but even in Harvard Yard, where to be a cynic is to be quite de rigeur...
Professors are, after all, rather idiotic. George Boas from his study at Johns Hopkins would admit that, for he himself continues as a professor of English literature. Yet idiocy--this kind of idiocy is the leaven in the lump of mediocrity and cultural decadence, so often the apparent heritage of the nation. Without it Ellis Island would be the gateway to oblivion instead of the open sesame to a fairly interesting modern nation. With it America can still believe that such outbursts of insanity as the Cathcart case may not plunge her into complete international disfavor...
Memorial tickets; "Harvard Class Day, 1926. Admit one to Memorial Hall, 8-11 P. M., June...
...made on white paper with black India ink and are to be of a simple figure. The size of the tickets is to be four and one half inches by seven and one half inches, and the designs must bear the following words: Yard tickets; "Harvard Class Day, 1926. Admit one to the Yard, June...
...pickin' o' literary women and I must admit that not only the colonel's lady and Jucy O'Grady but Dumb Dora and Winifred Intelligentsia have very little dissimilarity.. If you think so--the conference next year is at Smith--in February...