Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know I have been steward down there ever since I have been connected with the Varsity Club). The players on the team would have nothing to do with the Freshmen even when they were living constantly with them. The first year men were not allowed to approach the University training table, and if, occasionally, one straggled by, he immediately received a barrage of every-thing from bread crusts to plates from the upperclassmen. There is quite a contrast now down there. The Freshmen are treated with the same attention and respect as the Seniors, and consequently everybody down there...
THERE are two possible approaches to the most recent work of Professor Beard in American history. Either leaves one with the certainty that he has written, with the aid of his wife, a work of the greatest importance. From one point of view, "The Rise of American Civilization" marks an epoch in the writing of history by American scholars. From a broader approach, he has written an epic which should itself figure in American history...
...other approach to this work must consider the two volumes as a factor themselves in the civilization which the Beards have tried to describe. Here the ground is full of pit-falls, which the Beards themselves have wisely avoided but which their work has made more obvious and less inevitable. There are students of American civilization who see in this country some signs of a growing self-consciousness, who suspect that as the earlier struggle against geographical frontiers produced its efflorescence in what one of these students has not ineptly termed "the golden days", so the present struggle against social...
After the Harvard reception, Mr. Pickwick as Dicken's contemporary representative will go to Craigie House, the Cambridge home of his dearly loved Longfellow. Because of the regard with which they held each other as evidenced in affectionate letters and frequent visits Mr. Pickwick will approach the shrine with humble retrospect that here, upon one glorious occasion, Dickens dined with Longfellow. Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell and Bayard Taylor...
...sees on returning to Harvard after an absence of 22 years. They value the assistance of the tutors more and more as they advance from the Sophomore to the Senior year. This is partly, of course, as a source of counsel and ghostly strength as the general examinations approach. To the Sophomore, these examinations seem merely one far-off, diabolical event; to the Senior, they seem imminent and awful. All students take their work with their tutors more and more seriously, but it would be a great mistake, as has been intimated, to suppose that the only, or chief, function...