Word: braved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nobody can answer the question asked by Katherine Fullerton Gerould in the Atlantic Monthly: What constitutes an educated person today? She makes a brave attempt and an exceedingly interesting one to solve the riddle, but it is only one of any number of answers, and may be inadequate she admits. "By and large education presupposes some real study in one or two fields of knowledge, and a shrews suspicion that other fields exist." Add to that the fact that it "is something done to you" and it is evident that if the definition is true, the University's idea...
...James Peters of Boston spent a night as a hob in the Wayfarers' Lodge some of his bedfellows were Reds who had threatened in pen and ink to have his life's blood. "You will be shot Friday night at 12," wrote one of the avengers. Peters had made brave war upon the Bolsheviki, silk-stockinged and stocking less. Yet he seems to have slept like a babe, though there were enemies of society snoring around him as well as good Americans down on their luck. Was it Peters of Harvard or Peters of the slums who took the compulsory...
...tributes he ever paid was to one of them. In a note prefacing his last volume he mentioned the help given him by my classmate, the late Frederic Schenck and in conclusion wrote: "If I felt sure that the book deserved such honour it should be dedicated to his brave and happy memory." Of the many gracious things that Mr. Wendell has said probably none reveals so clearly the modesty, the utter absence of smug self-satisfaction, that was perhaps the most endearing quality of the teacher...
...brief, if a man's "sincere beliefs" are such that they hinder a righteous cause, such as our war with Germany, let him suffer the full penalty of his crime in the name of the brave men who died willingly for a real, Godly and pure ideal. F. VAN W. MASON...
...months later was gone at Gallipoli. Not far from a million British died in the field; the battle dead of little Australia alone equalled ours. Our rivals are too good sportsmen to mention the fact, but all the more reason why we should do so. These brave dead we cannot beat. New York Evening Post...