Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time is not entirely out of sight when it will be not only convenient but necessary to build foot-bridges, such as are used in crowded parts of London, over Massachusetts Avenue. Traffic certainly cannot be asked to detour a quarter of a mile for the conveniences of the college; neither does it seem right that those who come to Cambridge for an education should be obliged to obtain it at the risk of their lives...
...connection with the Oxford unpleasantness, we cannot but admire the reasonable methods with which the English always seem to deal with unusual situations. The recent "riot" at Oxford was evidently animated, yet it appears to have been handled in a way that robbed it of real seriousness and made it a matter for ridicule rather than scandal. Obviously they find it both expedient and profitable to make the best of a bad situation instead of making the worst of a harmless...
There is a story, for the exact truth of which, however the Vagabond cannot youth, told of an employee in one of Mr. Ford's automobile factories who on his death-bed was asked to give his idea of paradise. It had been this worthy man's occupation to give the second from the last turn to the last bolt on the chasis as they moved past him, his fellow worker standing beside him putting the finishing touch to the product. Now as he lay dying he could think of but one supreme desire, but one thing which...
Young Turkey is compact, and the dictature of Mustafa Kemal, the Ghazi ("The Victorious"), is absolute over such territory as is left. There is not the occasion for internal strife and wholesale massacre that there once was. ¶ Though the leopard cannot change its spots, the Young Turks naturally feel less ferocity than formerly toward those few Armenians, Greeks and Jews who are now trading quietly in Turkey and paying the present high taxes...
...quite right in taking the position that the S. F. F. has no right to appeal to Harvard University as such through its Student Council to support an avowardly Christian programme. On the other hand it cannot be questioned that the present world situation makes an appeal to Christian students for the furtherance of the aims of the S. F. F. entirely justified. I feel sure that there are many in Harvard University who will lend their support to this attempt to foster "some sort of intelligent cooperation and understanding" among the students of the world on this basis...