Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there does seem to be a new realization that education in the humanities is of value; nor is this confined to the East. For instance, we find in the Oregon "Daily Emerald" expression of the same feeling; "Western Universities too are seeing their dawn; and soon . . . one will no more think of 'going east for mere educational advantages than easterners now think of coming to the west." This is a fine statement; the country needs many more institutions, both ergonocentric and anthropocentric...
...great and kind, but the way of the Lord is dark; who can tell the way of the Lord? He appears to all his people; but, lo, none of us has seen him. His coming is like the east wind, and his going, it is like the wind before dawn." Apart from these possibly pedantic considerations, "Flats and Mansions" is a stimulating and artistic piece of work...
...eventual victory of spring and new love and morning. In "September", "Rain Before Day", "A Letter From England" and others is traceable this what might be called grief-taught optimism. It is far from joyous overconfidence, but rather a faith that has the freshness and clearness of a dawn wind after a night of storm...
...president of the New-York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, strongly condemns the labor unions for demanding an eight-hour day. "This nation", says Mr. Buchland, "was not built by eight-hour men and it will not be maintained by them. It was built by whole families working from dawn 'till dusk in the hope that what they produce and save will be theirs and not anothers'." Therefore, argues the New Haven's manager, any change from the methods of our forefathers must inevitably result in the downfall of industry and the ruin of our country...
...untutored and violently prejudiced mind, there are five poems in the volume so much better than all the rest that they should be printed in red. They are: "On Growing Old", by John Masefield; "the Dawn Wind", by Rudyard Kipling; "The Mocking Fairy", by Walter de la Mare; "The Little "Uavern", by Edna St. Vincent Millany; "The Ploughman", by Karle Wilson Baker. One of these is a pair of second-best; one, a "Fairy laughing softly in the garden", one, a simple little song, both old and new; one, free verse. With half-a-dozen others, they hint what...