Word: eras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...polo dinner to be given tonight at the Harvard Club of New York it is hoped that a new era of polo at Harvard will begin. Many prominent graduates interested in polo and members of the University, team have been invited in the hope that a graduate organization will be formed to take over the financial responsibility of polo as a regular activity...
...Gould system started in 1857 with a terrific war of control against E. H. Harrlman. It was the era of mad railroad construction when fortunes awaited the successful builder. Such success was achieved chiefly by ruinous competition; and miles of torn tracks, hundreds of crushed investors, unceasing litigation, hectic legislation, and deserted boom towns marked the Gould-Harriman tornado...
...era dawned upon Holden and upon Harvard in 1783, when the first professional school came into being. For thirty years the Medical School held its meetings in Holden Chapel. Harvard had new become a university! There was a time when that little box of a building housed the Medical School, the Chemistry and Physics Laboratories, such as they were, and four recitation rooms, one for each of the college classes. This was Holden in its heyday of which Edward Everett wrote "the Chapel was Holden" the entire university." But as new buildings were added Holden sank once more into obscurity...
Perversely the serpent censorship refuses to die. The Puritans revived it and brought on as a result the reaction of an unrestrained Restoration era. Even today the abortive principle occasionally raises its ugly head. Fortunately the very absurdity of the events and comments it drags in its wake are enough to disclose its own true and repelling nature...
That grown women, to all out ward appearances sane and conscious of their actions, have carried such a resolution is important as a sign of the times. Historians say it is only natural that an era of international skepticism should follow one when the universal brotherhood of man was so loudly proclaimed. Even so, liberal minded people cannot console themselves with the philosophy of Doctor Pangloss that everything must happen as it does and that all is for the best...