Word: distant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...kindly disemboweling for us. I am the solitary Peruvian of the Incas line now attendant at this great modern seat of learning. To feel that Harvard is unearthing the riches of my race's glorious past and is portraying to us now the student life of that distant age makes my eyes water with cheer...
...that "If we are to do anything to lift that cloud of doubt, it. I feel, can be done only. . . through joint action with our old friends and rivals, Yale and Harvard," while Professor Mendell echoes this idea with these words, "I hope that the day is not far distant when Harvard, Princeton and Yale can agree upon some such regulation as a safeguard for true sportsmanship...
...jumped from a matter of six or ten miles to fifty and one hundred miles. The thing was enthralling to those having the kind of a mind that these amateurs possessed. The idea of sitting at home and conversing by dots and dashes with a kindred spirit in a distant city, who was completely unknown personally, was absolutely compelling. It really amounted to a private telegraph line, for there was no expense involved, and any number of persons could be included...
...sport. In fact the playing of the game was left to a chosen few, while all the others gathered round to watch. Interest in the contests became intense; teams of Roloists were formed, and the students divided in heated rivalry. It is even recorded that Rolo experts from distant lands came to compete with the Incamen, and that the whole nation became fevered with enthusiasm for the game...
...come to study men, yet shy like a frightened Ilama at the slightest difference among them. That fellow-citizens should know even their most distant brothers to be all of the same stuff is the hope of the country. Here is the opportunity. There are none to take it. We ask no sentimental orgy over having lived together with another for a time. We ask merely that each shall be made to realize that the other is neither a simpleton, a jackass, nor a pig. For is it not true that when these students are gone without these walls they...