Word: earned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letters and journals of these cager young men, all of whom gravitated to Goettingen to hear the giants of learning. Edward Everett, who was a Harvard A.B. at seventeen, preacher to "the politest congregation in Boston" at twenty-one, and ultimately president of Harvard, was the first American to earn the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Germany. His studies in his second year at Goettingen he lists as Roman Law, Archacology, Ciccro's de Oratore, Greek syntax and meters, Greek and Latin Composition, Latin conversation, French, and Italian, Riding and dancing, he adds, are "pursued at odd intervals...
...Dawson, Wallace, Morgan, Sleeper, Knox, Thackara, Kellogg, and R. Scott went in to earn their letters for Harvard...
...proposal for a three-year college course, mot recently advocated by Dr. Drury of St. Paul's School, demands the serious consideration of President Conant. While, a graduate must grub for years to earn a self supporting income, as an undergraduate he usually wastes an appalling amount of time...
...chemist can sell short and earn his fame...
...around their hotel block for exercise and spent the rest of their time singing. The letters on their badges stood for Singing Boys of America. They regarded this week's Manhattan concert as their formal debut, the springboard from which they hoped to jump to national importance, really earn their name...