Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speaker of honor at the dinner last night, Coach Horween stated that there had never been in his mind any question of wanting to return as head coach of the Harvard gridiron forces; it was mainly a question of whether he could come back. "The warm reception which has been accorded me here this evening has more than answered my doubts," he said. Speaking of the past three years as mentor, he continued. "I have attempted to build up and firmly establish a system based on a principle of attack. The team has been sent onto the field with...
...carry on the work must be able to enjoy the kind of leisure and intellectual fellowship that it is the business of a university to provide. Psychopathology requires contact with all the various attitudes of academic psychology, the sensational, introspective, 'gestalt' and behaviouristic. Just as pathology has come to rest upon normal physiology, so must psychopathology rest upon normal psychology. As there is no course of psychology in the Medical School, it is appropriate that psychology be made a part of the college...
...from English into Greek at evening prayers, so as to combine piety and scholarship. But he did much else than teach. The College was supported largely by a "country rate" laid by the General Court in the towns, whose tax-collectors sometimes needed a personal visit before they would "come across...
...reason probably is that this part of the upkeep cost has become too insignificant to figure in the computations of most buyers. Not only has the price of gasoline remained nearly constant while the national income has risen considerably, but the prosperity that has come upon the auto industry has so increased the value of the dollar spent in purchasing a car that the smaller fractions of it saved in such ways lose their significance. Probably the most important consideration of all is that higher consumption of gas brings increased power, and it is not without its significance in America...
Booksellers everywhere have had a welcome opportunity to forget their depressing post-Christmas trade. A new light of encouragement has been cast upon their slackened business. Out of the noise and traffic of a materialistic metropolis has come the report that literature still commands enormous prices. For the purchase of valuable collections at public auction, buyers were not found wanting, even though the bidding ran unusually high...