Word: crediting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Without attempting authoritative assertions either for or against the question, it seems certain that in so far as Johnson's place in literature rests upon posthumous popularity, Boswell may rightly be given a large part of the credit. But before saying finally that Johnson's biographer "made" him, one will do well to recall Garlyle's assertion that few men's lives are worth writing. Can it be, then, that Johnson's life was intrinsically worthless? Surely no one who has read Boswell will say that. Johnson was a great character, and the most profound literary force in England...
...fence, no skull caps, and no Freshman riots and for that it may be justly thankful, but in abolishing these petty nuisances, it has introduced no corresponding good. Harvard would have a better right to criticize the childishness of other colleges if it had more to its own credit. At present a certain conventional stupidity is its main attribute...
...fact that one man on the Yale team, Norton, got as many points as Harvard's total bodes ill for the Crimson in the dual meet. Norton won the broad jump with 23 feet 11 inches to his credit, placed second in the short dash, and third in the 220-yard sprint. He will be a dangerous man for Harvard in the meet on June 15. It looks as if the Elis could count on him for 15 points...
...Harvard team now has to its credit a record of eight uninterrupted victories as follows: Harvard 6 Williams 3 Harvard 6 M. I. T. 0 Harvard 6 Wesleyan 0 Harvard 6 B. U. 0 Harvard 6 Columbia 0 Harvard 7 Penn 2 Harvard 5 Princeton 4 Harvard 5 Dartmouth...
...been an international creditor. But, respecting the movement of capital in loans and security purchases, the country took in only $387,000,000 and paid out $959,000,000, thus running a debit balance of $572,000,000. When this sum is balanced against the previous $360,000,000 credit, it is found that in 1924 this country was actually a debtor to the extent...