Word: cumming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...learned to talk by imitating what speech felt like, beneath her fingers. Aided by her devoted, lifelong teacher and guardian, Mrs. Macy* (nee Anne Mansfield Sullivan), the prodigious Keller has been a U. S. phenomenon since the age of seven, has won without benefit of favoritism a college degree cum laude (Radcliffe), has cinemacted, lectured, written books, corresponded in French, German and English with her international friends?the blind, deaf, sick, poor, grieving. Over radio-station WEAF she now "hears" music by lightfingering a wooden sounding-board. Professor Pierre Villey, blind himself, called her a "dupe of words," characterized...
President Lowell has often pointed out how different is the attitude of American society from that of English society toward the achievements of its young men. An English university man is quite as proud when his son or brother or friend gets a "first" (i.e. our summa cum laude) as when he rows in the boat or plays on the team. Now that our class is fifty years out, we have attained this catholicity. The Housing Plan and all that it implies will promote, we hope and believe, something of the same sort for our young men and their parents...
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