Word: advent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what extent the scheme of academic contests, initiated by Mrs. Putnam will foster the general enthusiasm for learning in the colleges which adopt it can be determined only through experience. As to the dangers which this plan is liable to involve such as the advent of a time "when Yale men will wade into Paradise Lost for the greater glory of Yale" or the introduction of "the evils of spectacular athletic competition into scholarship" there should be little cause for worry. The want of "a good stage manager" and the "element of personal contact" should be enough to guarantee against...
...advent of the reading period, indeed, brings a time of enforced inactivity to the Vagabond, although this is perhaps not unwelcome to his weary frame. For with the exception of a few scant offerings that are whispered of next week, today marks the culmination of the indoor season. So with only a faint admonition to patronize local industries, the Vagabond intends to depart to other climates. As a parasite upon intellectual life, however, he is conscious of the parries and thrusts, upon his nature, so that in self-defense, and perhaps to imbibe a final morsel of mental nourishment...
...Hoover now holds in the U. S. Tang Shao-yi was Managing Director of the Imperial Railways of North China in 1900, and shortly afterwards became High Commissioner of Customs under the patronage of the great Viceroy of Chihli and subsequent President of China Yuan Shih-kai. Before the advent of the republican regime, Tang Shao-yi was sent to Washington as special Ambassador of the Manchu Emperor. Later he served as Prime Minister of the Government at Peking and as Minister of Finance under the Cantonese Government. He saw his son-in-law, Dr. Wellington Koo, Ambassador at Washington...
...usual, the sophisticates were wrong. Since the advent of the daughter of "Princess Alice" Longworth, not a single birth, except royal births, has been forecast in respectable papers, throughout...
...modern night clubbing, and modern garages are all finding their way into the highways and byways of the former seat of ancestry and Louisa Alcott. And now the modern music is howling its insistent way into favor, in an effort to bring Boston further up to date. With the advent of Stravinsky aided by the Glee Club recently, Boston has seemed to be infused with a new desire for this type of music...