Word: ever
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...significance from which no one desires to be excluded. And yet the disruption of the class has prevented many men from being graduated this year, as well as made it impossible for others even to return to College. In extending the privilege of Class Day to all men who ever laid claim to 1919, the Seniors have recognized these facts. Men who technically are not rated as Seniors, and yet at any time have been associated with them officially are urged to be present. The older men grow, the more they appreciate class celebrations. The success of this year...
...statement cannot be doubted. For the sake of an ideal, America sent millions of men to Europe and placed all her resources at the disposal of the Allies when, in a material sense, she had nothing to gain. No nation in history has ever before made such sacrifices for such a reason...
...taught England and America the meaning of democracy featured the exercises held in Sanders Theatre by the Cambridge Historical Society Saturday evening in honor of the poet's hundredth birthday anniversary. William Roscoe Thayer '81 who presided referred to Lowell as the greatest ambassador America ever had President Eliot '53 reviewed Lowell's career as a professor at the University...
...England scene. Wit and humor and wisdom made him one of the best talkers of his generation. These qualities pervade his essays and his letters, and the latter in particular reveal those ardons and fidelities of friendship which men like Emerson and Thoreau longed after without ever quite experiencing. Lowell's cosmopolitan reputation, which was greatly enhanced in the last decade of his life, seemed to his old associates of the Saturday Club only a fit recognition of the learning, wit, and fine imagination which had been familiar to them from the first. To hold the old friends throughout...
...ever so. The Puritans in old England fought for religious toleration only to become more intolerant than the Churchmen when they came to power. The Bolsheviki overthrew the worst despotism in Europe only to set up the most sinister tyranny that history has recorded. Liberty we fear, is still invoked by certain radicals only in so far as it can be made to favor their aims...