Word: descent
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...House President Eliot addressed a meeting of the Harvard Menorah Society and representatives and the Jewish race from many of the New England colleges. He began by saying that Harvard University was founded for the search of truth and freedom, and that in this spirit the students of Semitic descent were received. The Jewsih race, he said, had a history piteous and full of pathos, and that it remembered three great captivities and times when it had had freedom only to think and hope, and but that now in this land it had found freedom both physical and intellectual...
Woodrow Wilson, "Virginian of Scotch-Irish descent, vigorous student and teacher of history, politics and government, and eminent author on these subjects, President of Princeton University for five years past, years eventful and fortunate indeed for that patriotic and serviceable institution...
...editorial suggests, among American dramatists also. It is noteworthy also that this sonnet should be the work of Percy Mackaye '97, who delighted all of us who heard the play with his strong musical verse in "Jeanne d'Arc." "Villanelle," by W. H. Wright Sp., and "The Descent of Istar into Hades" by J. H. Wheelock '08 enshrine some of the tricks and a little of the fascination of the school of Rossetti. Both show imagination, the second especially has some excellent lines. "The Song of the Revolutionist" by A. Davis '07 has a good galloping rhythm...
Bookman--"Literary Clubland," by J. A. Macy '99. "The Descent of Man, and Some Recent Books," by F. T. Cooper...
...others--there is one and only one rope fire escape, by which one person could probably descend in safety. It is so arranged that it cannot be used a second time without pulling the entire length of the rope through a device which grips it tightly (preventing the descent from being too rapid). This would take at least ten minutes after the seat of the escape has been thrown back up to the window. Meanwhile the remaining occupant of the room would probably be suffocated or burned. As the wooden stairs would be the first thing to burn...