Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are things in New Haven which Harvard men cannot understand, there are things in Cambridge which the men from Yale look upon with astonishment and a certain sceptical disdain. But there is one point upon which the men of both institutions are equally agreed; they want to make the Harvard Yale game the finest sporting event in the country...
...Cambridge. Harvard will play a large part in the celebration which will take place during the summer months next year. It is probable that the early history of the founding of the College will form part of the historical pageant, although a definite announcement of the program itself cannot be made until financial support has been guaranteed...
...Healthy exaggeration came naturally to him, made his sweeping statements sweep cleaner: "[Shaw] is as emotional as his own typewriter, and this defect, which he parades as did the fox in the fable, has stood in the way of his writing a great play. He despises love, and therefore cannot appeal deeply to mankind." Wagner's Parsijal is dismissed as "that bizarre compound of rickety Buddhism and bric-a-brac Christianity." When Maupassant, mewed in his asylum, waited for death, "he became a mere machine, and perhaps the only pleasure he experienced was the hallucination of bands of black butterflies...
...will be difficult, in fact it will be next to impossible, to convince the officials, the alumni, and the adherents of the small colleges that they are pursuing a course entirely divergent from the trend of progressive and modern education--that they cannot hope to compete on an equal footing with the larger universities in teaching. Sentiment, tradition, and college loyalty are factors against which even the most logical arguments can hardly hope to prevail. These intangible feelings alone are a guarantee of the continuance of the small college, and their disbanding may be considered a thing...
...known bankers has been engaged at Baden-Baden, Germany. In drawing up the statutes and the charter of the new institution. Details as to the statutes and the charter have been made public recently but the trust agreement, which provides how the new bank shall take over reparations work, cannot be completed until the Second Hagne Conference between the Powers...