Word: clue
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...authentic clue to the exact date of John Harvard's birth was found until recently, when research students discovered the following record in the baptismal files of St. Saviour's Church, Southwark, England: "1607, November 29, John Harvye, S. of Robt., a Butcher." Since it was the custom in the churches at that time to require the baptism of a child three days after his birth, the Memorial Society, which each year holds commemoration services, decided in 1910 to fix November 26 in the year 1607 as the correct date of the birth of John Harvard...
...three weeks of chasing the Freshman from Gore to Standish and thence to his residence in West Roxbury, the tired hunter has at last a trail to follow. The CRIMSON'S Freshman Register is out. The Phillips Brooks House money snatchers and the Liberty Loan sleuths have now a clue. No more will the debutant in college live a life of case. With his name and address in black and white his resources will be wheedled from him by the smooth-tongued upperclassman. Under the present Reign of Terror where the cost of living is impossible and Follies' seats cost...
...these lines might apply to almost any old French city in war time, and they give us a clue to the first defect of the book. The author has not found the soul of Bordeaux, that something which exists in every old city and distinguishes it from all other cities. He has the external features, the names of streets and parks, the jangling of old bells, the seasoned stone of the buildings, bridges and docks, and the "spire-shattered" sky. But frequently he seems to have been too busy being an imagist to be a poet as well...
...authentic clue to the exact date of John Harvard's birth was found until recently, when historians found the following entry of his birth in the baptismal files of St. Saviour's Church, Southwark--"1607, November 29, John Harvye, S. of "Robt., a Butcher." Since it was the custom in the churches at that time to require the baptism of every child three days after its birth historians were led on the occasion of the 300th annivesary of John Harvard's birth to fix November 26th in the year 1607 as the correct date of his birth...
...studies of the men are of the same practical and significant kind. The selection of medicine is marked and gives a clue to the present lack of doctors. Men are leaving classical studies for physics, chemistry and physiology. Most of the women are studying at the University of Berlin, but even the new universities of Frankfurt and Warsaw have a considerable number...