Word: corn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cultivation and improvement; but this is true too in the case of Boston or Cambridge which have many "idie lots" in the very heart of the city. But everybody knows that the people in Boston or Cambridge do not and will not turn their vacant lots into wheat or corn fields unless and until the price of wheat or corn becomes so high to give them ample remuneration for the production of grain on such valuable plots. In the case of Japan the question is not whether she has more land for cultivation but whether she could produce more products...
...taken to Yale, where they entered the Harkness Quadrangle in great pomp, being drawn on a two wheel cart by a team of oxen. These stones are said to have historic associations with the founding of the college, having been used in the mill in which was ground the corn eaten by the first president of Yale. The historian further informs us that he who has never tasted "pone" bread made from the corn-meal ground in the old-fashioned water mills has missed the greatest of body-building foods, the food upon which throve the husky pioneer of colonial...
...necessary strength-giving constituents, or vitamins. The connection between these two facts could not be more obvious. We no longer wonder why such deference was shown to a careful of old stones; for these stones are to be set up in the heart of the college to grind the corn that will make the "pone" which will make Yale athletes grow strong again...
...which event, it certainly is not endearing. Therefore, it seems to me, that the Boston man who (like myself) gradated form Harvard can afford to laugh good-naturedly at the allegation that he is "like an egg which has been laid twice--each time successfully", and acknowledge the corn. And most of us old grads are fatuous enough to believe that the University can afford to invite honest criticism and profit by it. Certainly, she is too great to fear the venom of the disgruntled or the hostility of the unworthy...
...which event, it certainly is not endearing. Therefore, it seems to me, that the Boston man who (like myself) gradated form Harvard can afford to laugh good-naturedly at the allegation that he is "like an egg which has been laid twice--each time successfully", and acknowledge the corn. And most of us old grads are fatuous enough to believe that the University can afford to invite honest criticism and profit by it. Certainly, she is too great to fear the venom of the disgruntled or the hostility of the unworthy...