Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With Congress soon assembling, these are days when people air their notions of what Congress ought to do. President Coolidge has his own ideas on that subject and lest Congress should come together in a difficult frame of mind, he frequently feels obliged to answer critics, theorists, reformers...
...Chrysostom* of the pulpit whose magnetic oratory and sound reasoning have great effect on his congregation. " Comparison might also have been made to Prophet Malachi, who wrote: "Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold he shall come, saith the Lord of Hosts...
There are two possible remedies to a situation which viewed in its broad aspects, and discrediting any petty sense of smug satisfaction, is certainly unfortunate. Either Harvard men through a tolerant and intelligent contact with men of other institutions, must come to the conviction that all good things are not centered in Cambridge, or they must sooner or later school themselves to an open minded acceptance of manners and methods strange, perhaps, but measured by a different standard quite as good...
...school teacher, gives the writer's opinion of small boys. "I wish you all success with your little boys," Carroll wrote; "to me they are not an attractive race of beings. As a little boy I was simply detestable, and if you wanted to induce me by money to come and teach them, I can only say you would have to offer me more than 10,000 pounds sterling a year." Another letter of interest is one written by Carroll in such small script that it is hardly legible. The letter was signed "Sylvie," and purported to be from...
...Harvard, the games played have been symbolic of the finest relations that can exist between colleges. The teams, reflecting the spirit of their colleges, play good, clean, hard, football. The stands reflecting this same spirit, support their teams with the finest sportsmanship which is due them. Dartmouth men come to see these games of unexcelled sportsmanship and to pack their team with a spirit of fine play...