Word: exist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Colleges exist for the normal individual, and although they sometimes admit those that are far from normal, they make no provision for any personal eccentricities. They weed out those who are not adjusted to their scale by the very strictness of their rulings. The average student does not realize that there are many men in college who suffer from morbidness and emotionalism of all sorts. They are round pegs in square holes, and the college lifts no finger to aid them...
...Courts have held that unlawful monopoly may exist without being 100% monopoly. "I defy anyone to name a market where the producer of raw material has to sell in such a slightly competitive market as this one." Meat prices are controlled by the big packers...
...extraordinary fact that only one copy of Harvard songs should exist in Harvard itself is explained by the nature of the orchestrations. The songs whose parts are lost are harmonized in keys which make them adaptable to both vocal and instrumental interpretation. The harmony itself, furthermore, is not of a wholly orchestral character: hence the difficulty in replacing the parts. No band scores have been made of some of the selections, and still others are out of print...
...educated classes, has only partially summed up the feeling of the College in this matter. For Harvard has realized, vaguely at first, but more and more through the years that all blind religion and superstitious ceremonialism inevitably must go. So dogmas have slumbered, compulsory chapel has ceased to exist, and Harvard has come to be called the college of the atheist...
...gratitude for his generous gift, the Metropolitan directors should decline his collection. Such an action will set a precedent, or perhaps emphasize a half-forgotten one, that American museums should follow, like the National Gallery in London, only the best interests of art and the public for whom they exist...