Word: bearer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...midst of the column of marching men a standard-bearer holds a large American flag, which serves as background for a great American bald eagle, that hovers over the men with spread wings, open beak, and outstretched talons. Below and behind the whole scene is the deep blue background of the ocean. The tones of this panel are more vivid than of the other, the colors of the flag serving as a dominant keynote...
...point in its processional cycle. As for the animals of the Ark, they refer to the symbolic or spiritual animals of the Zodiac--for of course it is only to be expected that such a powerful race intellectually would select precisely a Bull, a Crab, a Goat, a Water-Bearer, etc., from all the possible things there were to choose from.-- "The animals went in two by two"; fortunately there are twelve signs in the Zodiac...
...generalizations and truths of mind. A smattering of Biology is useless; knowledge of the scientific method is invaluable. And so with the other departments:--methods are the things which all men naturally desire to know. They are what men live by. Give me a universal law--O bearer of lux of veritas (light and truth!)--and I will spend the rest of my days repaying you with more than half of my many kingdoms. This you could give--and yet still extra-curriculum is where the real lux and the real veritas linger. "Give me wherewith to stand...
...Harvard's one representative publication is dead, if the self confessed inaugurator of the Endowment Fund has gone to its reward, if the banner bearer of our literary legions has fallen in the attack, surely we who have tears may prepare to shed them. Unfortunately there have been things in the life of the Magazine which became it more than the leaving of it, for the last number, however significant it may be as death-bed jesting, is not one we shall remember pleasantly or long. Two brief and jocular messages of farewell, the conventional allusions to the Advocate, Lampoon...