Word: dreamed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...multiplicity of changes the dropping out of customs, sometimes their return the growth of new ways and evolution very striking when observed in its terminal manifestations. Yet certainly after the very earliest years a continuos core of something persists. Perhaps it is the dream of freedom and the fight for freedom necessary to the seeking of that Truth which in Latin is inscribed upon the Harvard seal. Perhaps it is the never failing presence in Harvard classes of a man or a few men who in college give promise and in later life make the promise good of signal distinction...
...carries itself on in Fogg Museum (the new elegance that replaces "Norton's pride" and house beauty of other times); Memorial Hall, where great men in their inconspicuous youth have taken their meals and later in its theatre spoken greatness or received honoring degrees; the Freshman dormitories (Lowell's dream, Lowell's babies), the new school of Business Administration the "spotless town" of the forgotten advertisements made actuality by five Baker millions; Soldiers Field, Higginson's gift its stadium the focus of all conscious competition with other universities; the Medical School and its beneficent brood of hospitals the Arnold Arboretum...
...Papa Chibou, also played by Muni. Brilliant as this charading is, it hurts the picture. You are too preoccupied with physical aspects of Muni as Chibou leaning on Muni as Napoleon to be concerned with the sentiments involved. Once all the wax Munis come to life in a dream and tell sleeping Caretaker Muni how to straighten out the interrupted romance of two young people who used to meet in the gallery. A lot of film is wasted on this romance. Dana Burnet's dialog is not convincing. Best shot: Chibou finding out the truth about Napoleon...
With nearly eight hundred men in English A1 and with seven hundred in History 1, most of the "professor-and-student-on-a-log" doctrine of which Mark Hopkins was wont to dream, seems to be relegated to the limbo of unattainable idealism. Yet these two courses are but collssi among a race of giants. With four other courses attracting more than five hundred men apiece, the gap between the fountain head of learning and the disciple grows immeasurably wide...
...work. The white boys had a game "Stray Goose." One boy ran, until caught and pummeled. Taylor helped. When he was 16 he put on a cowboy's costume and strutted to a dance. The girls were nicer than Big Maude's. He began to dream and want money. He told his mother what he had heard of Wall Street. She looked grim, so he ran away to Minneapolis...