Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...literature bears the mark of Flint, Mich., and mostly is put into the rural mail boxes at the crossways, under doors and into small town letter boxes during the night. . . . "All the stuff is much the same . . . holds out the most amazing threats of devastation and disaster which will come to the nation if the Pope wins control of the Government . . .and contains the most vicious and lurid attacks on the Governor, assailing him in the vilest language...
There he might find it. It's a pity, almost, that Presidential campaigns don't come oftener. Harvard undergraduates seem to have lost the faculty of lifting themselves out of themselves among familiar surroundings, and grave doubts have arisen as to the possibility of any sublimation of the student personality. But six weeks have wrought a revelation. Anyone who has seen--and heard--his friend who is wrapped up most of the time in thirteenth-century Italy become a member of the electorate will admit...
...used to take care of the four furnaces in Massachusetts hall when there was only one room on the first floor. A half-hour before examination time, students would come in there and open all the windows. I kept the furnaces going full tilt to keep the building warm, but with the windows open it would get cold as a barn. Then when the professor came in, the students would complain the building was not heated enough, and was too cold for an examination. Generally they were excused and the exam postponed to another...
...reasonably enthusiastic music lover gain the lower frontier of Huntington avenue. Such infrequent exposure to one of the noblest, of the fine arts is not enough to make any appreciable difference in one's knowledge. But at last the mountain, or at any rate a very satisfactory foothill, has come to Mohammed, and henceforth only actual indifference to music can excuse a lack of familiarity on the part of Harvard...
...number of white mice being used for experiment at the Medical School clinic required an attendant, and an order was placed at the Student Employment Office. Other requests have come in for boys to take dogs out walking, or stay home at night with children. Positions for day laborers, rug beaters, floor waxers, and clerks, typists and interpreters, are among the more presale forms of employment...