Word: cloistering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When completed, the memorial will include: The Patriots' Hall, Washington Memorial Chapel (now complete), Cloister of the Colonies, Porch of the Allies, Thanksgiving Tower, Woodlawn Cathedral, Eight Halls of History. In the past five years not less than 200,000 people have visited the Memorial Chapel. Some of these have been sensible, some have claimed that their ancestors fought in the "battle of Valley Forge." The late President Wilson, referred to it as "the shrine of the American People...
That period of commencement day addresses which continues throughout June is already upon us. Everywhere prominent men are drawn back from the arena to the cloister for a day to exhort with the Senior suddenly become Freshman again. Too often these sermons from high finance, high politics, or high poetics, are stodgy, or sentimental, or pluto-patriotic, or even cheap pamphleteering. Mr. McAdoo, for instance, has taken advantage of his position as commencement orator to wave the black flag of the Anti-Saloon League and then attempt to pull a Houdini on his audience by telling them it is identical...
Shore dust covered mortals who cloister themselves in the squalid dignity of senior chambers awoke one noon last week from vernal lethargy to the mess call sounded from a Pickwickian bugle. The Dickens' jubilee had included among its enthusiasts that stalwart figure in the green colonial smoking jacket--John Harvard...
...howl-leader. In an editorial headed "Piffle Patriots at Princeton" it said: "The reasoning of the Columbia professors was not good in either morals or economics. The signers were obviously groggy with emotionalism and Mr. Hibben indicates that there is the same fluttering of wings in the Princeton cloister." The professorial urge for debt revision "begins with the idea that the United States was a sluggard in its own War, that it was mean in remaining out of the League of Nations, selfish in kicking itself out of the World Court and can be made respectable only by paying cash...
...nobler love render the beautiful and gifted Carlota, so comprehending of herself and others, impervious to a love far from satisfying? And how could Philip, the object of the love, once awake to human passion, return so inexorably to a calm monastic prison? Ever conscious of "The Cloister and the Hearth" with its profound tragedy of two ever-faithful lovers, the reader finds in the story of Philip and Carlota little to arouse emotion...