Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact of the game itself. What pleases me is that Harvard, the oldest American university, has reached out over 2,000 miles from the Northeast and extended the glad hand of friendship to Texas, the oldest and largest university in the Southwest, and has said with a smile. 'Come let's be friends; come and have a game with us.' This is the first time, to my knowledge, that any one of the so-called 'Big-Four' of the East have invited a Southwestern team to play football' and I am glad that Harvard is the first host on such...
...important audience settled itself ecstatically to hear Arturo Toscanini conduct the season's first concert of the Philharmonic-Symphony. The occasion itself, anyone would have said, demanded more preliminary pomp. Long has the Philharmonic angled for an option on the services of Toscanini. Only this year has he come to begin the season and to conduct the major portion. But when last week his audience stood proudly to greet him and began the expected ovation, the little man quashed it with a quick bow, turned his back, tapped smartly for attention and began the business of the evening...
...Westmoreland County jail were presented by the warden with a "greetings" folder such as hotels hand their guests. Excerpts : "My friend, for a little while you and I are compelled to live under the same roof, and, in a way, to be in each other's company. You come without invitation from me. Probably you had no intention that we should meet in this way. Probably you have made a mistake, perhaps done wrong. I have done both. Let us both, the little while we are together, try to do as we would be done by. Should we both...
Outside the post a great many of us lay on the ground in the dark. They carried wounded in and brought them out. I could see the light come out from the dressing station when the curtain opened and they brought someone in or out. The dead were off to one side. The doctors were working with their sleeves up to their shoulders and were red as butchers. There were not enough stretchers. Some of the wounded were noisy but most were quiet. The wind blew the leaves in the bower over the door of the dressing station...
...same time they have been under an ever increasing pressure to identify themselves with the institutions that set them adrift in the world. The American genius for organization has been nowhere more potent that in its regimentation of college alumni, with the result that the alumni have come to dictate the ideals of the college. These ideals are naturally those of the "mixer," since in nine cases out of ten it is the good "mixer" that succeeds in business...