Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From many, many mouths has come the plaint that Harvard takes things of the intellect too seriously, to the exclusion of the collegiate heroism of romance. The charge has gone unanswered, while Harvard continued on its path. Erring the University may be; but one feels somewhat less inclined to subscribe to such a belief, as time brings no great disapproval of her methods, but rather an access of those once doubting...
Both Chairman, 62, and President, 54, come regularly to work in Manhattan; the former from Montclair, N. J.; the latter from a vast estate at Valhalla (Westchester county, N. Y.). President Hartford's Valhalla is no meeting place of brawny heroes or great and faithful warriors; it is a place of shadowy woods, where a man may be alone with dog and horse...
Volpone† is a money-hugging voluptuary who lies in bed groaning and pretending to be dying. Seeing him so, his companions in coin-clutching, each hoping to be made his heir, come to his bedside bearing gifts and ready to commit other offices of friendship. Volpone's assistant in deception is the smart and fluttering Mosca; together, they are reaping a rich harvest until Volpone attempts to perform rape upon a friend's wife, sent to him for no better reason. Tried in court for this offense and adjudged innocent, Volpone tries another wily and audacious rascality...
...Gifford, on the basis of a systematic and statistical analysis of the personnel of the Boll System, has shown that success among the college graduates employed, has come in greatest measure to the men with the best college records. The relation seems to be something more than a coincidence, wherefore, if Mr. Gifford's observations among the men in one company may be taken as representative of other cases, it seems to follow that scholastic attitude is in the majority of instances the precursor of success in business...
...particularly suggestive is the fact which Mr. Gifford adduces in connection. Not only are the college honor men in general higher paid, but they have achieved promotions with increasing regularity as they have progressed. In the cases of the lower grade college men, on the other hand, promotions have come fastest at the very start, then with decreasing regularity...