Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last three years the system of helpful contact between upperclassmen and Freshmen during the first months of college has progressed to a point where for the first time it has come to an actuality. It has gone further than a mere announcement in the CRIMSON of the names of a representative group of Juniors and Sophomores. It has even passed beyond the point where a straggling few of this same group huddled together for mutual protection at a table in a Freshman dining hall while their reason d'etre gazed with kindred timidity from the other end of the room...
...students, both Freshmen, transfers, and men of the Graduate Schools who have come from other institutions, need have no fear that the university which they have chosen and whose residence is perhaps thousands of miles from theirs is unduly influenced by its geographical situation. It is a common saying that all that was finest in New England went to make up Harvard College; those elements have yet to depreciate in value. Since then, since the foundation of what was initially purely a New England institution, foreign ingredients have been introduced and it is the opinion of not a few that...
...assure you that all of us in the Dean's Office are anxious and willing to help you in every way possible to a good start in one of the most important adventures of your life. Also, as the year moves on, we hope that you will come to us freely about your various problems, needs, and plans. A dean's office, I fear, is often pictured as a kind of "Star chamber" where long hours are spent in devising various forms of disciplinary action ranging all the way from admonition to probation and expulsion. This is not, and never...
...Tully and Medcalf climbed into the Sir John Carling, a Stinson Detroiter, similar to the ship in which Edward F. Schlee and William S. Brock started around the world. In their map case was a short note. It told of the Old Glory's SOS. The message had come just before Tully and Medcalf left; friends feared to shake their nerves on the take-off by telling them. Somewhere out at sea they must open the map case, and learn how somewhere into the tossing water beneath them another ship had tumbled from the air. Whether or not they ever...
...little boy jumped with a para- chute made from a tablecloth, felt the parachute give way above him, felt the world come up beneath him, rolled over uninjured. He had landed on a pile of hay. The boy was James De Witt Hill. About 35 years later he jumped from Old Orchard, Me., in an airplane made of wood and wires and steel; felt the airplane give way around him; felt the world coming up beneath him; splashed down into the ocean, disappeared...