Word: bore
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University's critics frequently cry loudly that Harvard has forgotten its inclusive character and gone into one camp or another. Several years ago a book appeared by one John Corbin, in which one chapter bore the ominous title, "Harvard, a Germanized University." And periodically the idea crops out that by some metamorphosis our older universities have been transformed from "good old English" institutions to narrow "single-aim" laboratories for academic research. The fact is that Harvard, as President Lowell pointed out at a meeting of graduate students last year, owes something to the educational systems of all the leading nations...
...members of the University to the opportunities that abound in Cambridge and Boston. It is time that at Harvard every man is free to "work out his own salvation" in his own way, and he must, obviously, be permitted to have full intellectual freedom. If art or opera bore him, it is his privilege to eschew them. No one gainsays that...
There are few more appalling, pernicious, and thoroughly reprehensible tendencies in modern times than banner bearing. In the light of modern investigation we clearly see that the young man in Longfellow's poem, "Excelsior," who bore a "banner with a strange device," was a dangerous fellow, who richly deserved to be lost among the snowy peaks, banner and all; that Betsy Ross should have devoted her time to knitting mufflers; that Barbara Freitchie was a foolish lady to risk her old gray head; in short that banners should be scrupulously eschewed -- especially red ones...
...either side of the river there was the tree of life (which bore twelve manner of fruits and yielded her fruit every month) and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.'--Rev. xxii, 2. Anderson Bridge...
...cost of the dinner was $550.00 while the Dinner Committee took in $456.60, leaving a deficit of $93.40, which the finances of the class easily bore...