Word: dealers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Wendell's influence will live; for he has made the Harvard ideal of English synonymous with the Wendell ideal, and able men trained in the Wendell school of thinking will carry on the work which he has so successfully begun. Cleveland Plain Dealer...
...plan for increasing the world's educational opportunities the Rhodes scholarships were admirable; but as a means to establish universal peace they have proved quite useless. --Cleveland Plain Dealer...
With examinations almost over and diplomas almost in hand, but one cloud remains to darken the Seniors' horizon. What shall be done with the furniture which they have cared for and carved for four bright years? A second-hand dealer or a janitor can often be found who will condescend to remove mahogany desks and brass bedsteads with comparatively little expense to the owner. But aside from the fear that cherished heirlooms of college days may not receive the treatment to which they are accustomed is the knowledge that one's pocket-book has not profited by the transaction...
...Seniors are not the only ones with weighty problems to solve. The Freshmen, fresh from their luxurious halls, must seek out new lodgings and even furnish them. To be sure, a second-hand dealer or a janitor can often be found who will agree to provide the desired mahogany desks and brass bedsteads. But the transaction is accompanied by the training of a well-filled purse...
...sour taste in Harvard mouths. But Yale tried to play the same game; she matched the skill of her individual expert against the skill of the Harvard past master, and lost fairly and squarely in what was a dual rather than a battle of twenty-two warriors."--Cleveland Plan Dealer...