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Professor Morison did not dwell at length on the well-worn, familiar facts of Harvard history, but instead introduced comparatively new material. Thus, we learn that in the days when term-bills were paid in produce, one scholar was credited with an animal's "suet innards" and another with a "piece of stuff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Morison Tells History of Harvard Yard to Freshmen | 11/24/1936 | See Source »

...Kirkland, to visit H . . . , where a little refreshment soon raised heavy hearts to dwell on matters more pleasant than the football match. Soon into my party clothes and with F . . . to dine at Leverett. How the spirit of the navy has worked changes! Lighthouses in the Leverett windows and salty coils of rope dangling from the music platform. On with the dance till midnight curfew told us we were indeed yet in Boston and must still pay homage to the Puritan. Back in the tower, warm with the dance and warmer with the wine, to fall back and dream...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...most men have come to the sunset of their lives and desire rest most of all. Political figures, at that age, write autobiographies and dwell over the past. On July 11, 1936, Senator Geo. William Norris was 75 and could look back on years of service in Washington. Instead he looked forward to another six years as senator, a term that will last until...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPOTLIGHTER | 11/14/1936 | See Source »

...crime it is, therefore in bliss you may not hope to dwell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...brother Morris also loved her. Marian, although she was friendly with both, loved neither. Morris wife complicated things by making shameless love to high-minded, honest Charlie who became her lover. Charlie, whose ideal in life was expressed in Longfellow's lines, Make a house where gods may dwell, Beautiful, entire, and clean, found his adulterous passion creating an impossible situation. So did his father who discovered his secret, died soon after All this was the substance of a matter-of-fact novel that won the Dodd, Mead Pictorial Review $10,000 prize contest las week. Simple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prize Problems | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

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