Word: exist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wells meaning is not that history has ceased to exist, but that it has grown too large. Its picturesqueness and its glamour have been taken over to the province of the novelist. Both are essential just as the warp and the woof in the weaving of a carpet...
...Again, the paper declared that--I quote its own culture word--the Harvard "flapper fans and road house roues" were anxious about the scholastic superiority of the Jews. I have no personal friends and few acquaintances who could aspire to the above complimentary description, but if any such exist they probably do not spend their time figuring out the alarming change in the percentage of Phi Beta Kappa membership...
...report of the Associated Harvard Clubs committee, published yesterday, expressed a very definite opinion. The members, according to their report, are opposed to anything of a utilitarian nature. They believe that a memorial should exist for its own sake; its primary purpose should be to keep before the minds of Harvard men the sacrifices made by their fellow-students and graduates in the War, and they fear that a dormitory, gymnasium, or auditorium would obscure the ideal for which it was erected. Therefore they conclude that something in the nature of an ornamental monument, a belfry, or a new chapel...
...England meeting today in New Haven have learned with deep regret of the tragic accident at Cambridge yesterday and send through you their sincerest sympathy." This telegram, sent to President Lowell on Saturday, is another instance of the fine feeling of community of both interest and purpose which should exist between all college men at all times. That a group of Yale men assembled at New Haven for a convivial occasion should take the trouble to send an expression of sympathy sets a fine example-and impels one to think upon the reality of the need for further cementing...
Probably this community of feeling exists very largely among the graduates of colleges now; but it does not, to any great extent, actively exist among undergraduates. The reason is that many undergraduates do not fully realize that their own college has a definite purpose-more than just turning out "better citizens"-that it wants to do it by providing facilities for training the mind and the body, and by forcing a realization of duty to public organizations, particularly to government: duty meaning that they should join in their activities and contribute. Roughly, that is what every college worthy...