Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME, Dec. 26 issue, reporting the Jewish Tribune's plan to erect a statue to the late Oscar Strauss, said that only two public statues of Jews existed in the U. S.-those of Poet Heinrich Heine and onetime Mayor Nathan Barnert of Paterson, N. J. Since have come information of statues to Alfred Benjamin in Kansas City, Mo., Israel Marks in Meridian, Miss. (LETTERS, Jan. 23 ?. 30) and, now, to Nathan Morris in Indianapolis...
...becomes a singer or an actor, because professionals lead a dog's life. An operatic career requires an iron constitution and means continual travelling around; people think we just have one grand time right along, but we really have to live almost exclusively for others, and our performances must come off whether we are dead or alive...
...nationalistic movement that is sweeping the world. In Russia, in Italy, in China, the symptoms have been the cause of international attention. Yesterday in India, natives decreed a day of mourning, and evoked bloodshed by rioting at the appearance of the Royal Commission on Indian Reforms, whose health measures come into sharp conflict with caste tradition...
...professors are themselves students, busily engaged in the prosecution of their studies, and I suspect you will find that many of your best teachers here, whose teaching you will value most highly in later years, will be found among those who are catalogued as students. We welcome you who come from other lands precisely because you come in the double capacity of student and teacher. If any such distinction must persist, I wish there were a third class of our members who were a third class of our members who were not denominated professors in the sense of having prescribed...
Those of you who have come to Harvard for the first time will doubtless find here things which make your life different from that in the universities of your native lands. You may find some of our many systems of instruction strange. You may think that some of the requirements of courses and credits are too rigid. You may feel that our community puts too much emphasis on the sports which we call athletics. But I hope none of these things will discourage you, and I think you will not find a lack of facilities for scholarship. Magnificent libraries...