Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tomlinson has come to the United States chiefly through the efforts of his publishers, who have just put out his first novel. "Galleons Reach." This book has enjoyed considerable fame and has put Tomlinson in the opinion of many in the same position that Joseph Conrad held when his novel "Chance" was published after 20 years of writing...
Fall baseball practice, which has been going on for a little more than two weeks under the direction of Coach F. G. Mitchell, will come to an end tomorrow afternoon. The 40 men who have been reporting have spent most of their time playing in a seven inning game daily. The teams have been so chosen that the more experienced men have had to face the more promising pitchers and the less experienced players the less talented hurlers...
...view of the fact that our school is the only genuine graduate institution of Landscape Architecture in the country, men come to it from all over the United States and even from abroad, and I find myself unable to fill all the positions offered to graduates, a condition unusual in the case of men just through professional school...
...reason of the year, and consequently affect smaller groups of candidates, can account for the immense audiences which gather to hear Professor Lake's lectures on the Bible, Professor Kittredge on Shakespeare, Professor Lowes on the Romantic Poets, or any of the other men for whose meetings one must come early in order to secure a seat. Nor can any mere degree of scholastic fame, however just, however true, alone and unaided hold those audiences and make them return to quench again their thirst...
...teaching. Where it is jacking one has courses attended by students whose attitude is complacent, uninterested and guided by other lights than the bright flame of intellectual curiosity. Where it is found there also one may find men to whom books are more than, required texts: men who have come together, almost in the ancient Greek manner, in order that they may listen to one possessed of an innate spark which stimulates them to pursue further the subject under discussion. No perfection of the technical details of the educational system, can recompense for an absence of this evanescent quality...