Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Square, that the undergraduates still had a sense of humor. According to the frontispiece, the song constitutes a versified testament and is entitled "Father Abbey's Will". An explanatory preface precedes the first lines which reads: "Some time since died here Mr. Matthew Abbey in a very advanced age. He had for many year's served the college in quality of bed maker and sweeper. Having no child, his wife inherited his whole estate which he bequeathes to her in his last will and testament as follows...
...final statement of his attitude in regard to the governmental situation at the University, Dr. Kirkpatrick speaks of an article which recently appeared in the London Observer, saying that "in this age in Spain as in Italy--there is no working substitute for liberty." "If this is true," concluded Dr. Kirkpatrick, "then the Harvard faculties can not long consent to the personal government of the president of that institution, far different though it be from that of Mussolini and Rivera. But too high a price may be paid for every 'good government.' Certainly if the superman fails and the mediocre...
When you were 10-12 years of age were you the goat for your playmates? In playing war would they force you to fight on the unpopular side...
...objection is not to the business school but to the proportion. This is a strenuous age, an age of science, and business schools are necessary. But all the more must we have our schools of the drama. Humanity cannot listen to the steam whistle continuously...
...your startled eye and dazed mind travel across blasted plains that frost the blood, stun the imagination; over mountain chains covered with age-old snows; across glacial rivers that race like maddened locomotives-barefooted, hungry-Proving That It Can Be Done No Matter What...