Word: carefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leaf from the manuscript of St. Jerome, so old that it is little more than an ash held together by the heavy letters. A textbook by Peter Lombard, the almost illegible sermons of Duns Scotus, and Luther's German Catechism are all there as a symbol of the care with which the learning of ancients was kept alive during the middle ages...
...Osborne's at Gray's Inn to pick up scarce books. Buy cod books, and read them; the best bocks are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads; for they may profit by the former. But take care not to understand editions and title-pages too well. It always smells of pedantry and not always of learning. What curious books I have, they are indeed but few they shall be at your service. I have some of the Old Collana, and the Macchiavel of 1550. Beware of Biblomania." --Chesterfield...
...series of smokers, and its advantages as a "get together" are obvious. Perhaps it is unkind to recall now the one blemish on the 1926 record its Freshman Jubilee. If the banquet is taken in a similar spirit, it will not be a precedent that other classes will care to follow. On the other hand, if put to its best uses, it may provide the very link that is needed between the Freshman Dormitories and the Yard...
...twelve hundred years to develop in Greek athletics, has arisen in our own "athletic period" in half a century. The tramp athlete, "fixing" of officials, pot hunters, were not unknown in Hellas. At last the professional trainer appeared and with him the training table and the specialist. To take care of them and the crowds who wanted to see them, huge stadiums were built. The whole system became commercialized...
...have never owned evening clothes and never propose to. I do not care for social functions and would prefer to remain away. If the occasion requires that I should be present I will go just...