Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mental hermit. The thousands of universities and colleges between the two oceans put forth elevens that range the country fighting for national recognition. The papers play up their prowess. Individual players, little colleges, pop into the limelight overnight. And over all and through all blow the tart autumn breezes, whipping up the flames in the follage, and in the girls cheeks, and filling the heart of man with a desire for heroism. To go to college and play football has the same attraction now for the boys of this country that Hollywood has for the girls...
This institution, which was begun in 1901 as a Bible Study Group, has developed gradually into a series of lectures which bring to the Freshmen some of the most prominent speakers of the country. In is renewal this autumn, two further innovations are to be found in the introduction of speakers by proctors and in the treatment of one general subject throughout the entire course...
Barring sudden war or the burning of the White House or some worse unpredictable calamity, the official mind of President Coolidge will be devoted this autumn and winter to the following subjects...
...usual to assume that Signor Mussolini's volte face from Socialism was a sudden thing; but this is erroneous. In the autumn of 1914, he founded Il Popolo d'ltalia, in which he advocated participation in the War on the side of the Allies, whereas he had been against intervention. The Socialists expelled him from the Party, but Mussolini remained a Socialist at heart, his revolutionary spirit unchecked...
Boston & Maine trains, moseying up the Hoosac Valley to Williamstown, Mass., carried a curious freight this week. In the winter their usual load is milk cans and traveling men; in the spring and autumn milk cans and college boys; in the summer milk cans. But this week big, all-steel specials swept up that dreaming valley, bearing to Williamstown financiers, lawyers, editors, college presidents, diplomats, army and navy officers, savants from all parts of the world, assembling at the invitation of Dr. Harry A. Garfield, President of Williams College, for the annual session of the Institute of Politics...