Word: contentedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finally came the grand, the fascinating, fiasco of Versailles, brilliant as so often before with the greatest figures of the day. Most brilliant was Wilson, the man of vision; House his man of execution-for in most things the two worked as one, supplementing each other. True, House did not...
Perhaps a cartoonist can defeat a college. The Yale game may see the names of Harvard and Ophelia joined against the more characteristic symbol of New Haven. But if Ophelia makes a second appearance at the Dartmouth game it will be on account of a misunderstanding between her manager and...
Something must be done to make the girls a little more contented with the fate that brings fifty per cent of them to Harvard husbands. A careful analysis of the recent pronunciamento brings to light the fact, concealed by long rhapsodic animadversions on the oadet's medieval atmosphere of chivalry...
"Precisely!" said Old Paul, with his dryest, most contented rumbling chuckle.
For the most part the discourses were similar. The Freshmen, slightly ill at ease, or somnolent, were urged to achieve "divine curiosity" (Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler), to create an intellectual atmosphere (Dr. John Grier Hibben). In general, they were implored not to behave like Freshmen, but like bright, contented students...