Word: exoduses
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...should the Vagabond, to whom, as to most Harvard men today, Professor Copeland is the most elusive of Harvard's sages, heard and seen once perhaps in the college year, take this exodus to heart? He might answer lightly that with "Copey" goes also the last hope of walking into the Yard to find the famous Boylston cow placidly cropping the lawn in front of Hollis: always a favorite, though remote, dream of the Vagabond's. For although any Boylston professor has the traditional right to pasture his hypothetical cow in the Yard, what person less venerable than "Copey" might...
...Genesis, Exodus...
...from the heavens last week, was greedily gobbled. This food, genuine Biblical manna, descended in a white cloud on a 30-acre field at the farm of Farmer Theunis Botha, cousin of the late great Boer General Louis Botha (1862-1919). Manna, as reported by the careful author of Exodus 16:31 tastes "like wafers made with honey." It is an excretion of the plant louse coccid (TIME, Aug. 29, 1927). Its effect upon the eater is mildly cathartic...
...offer as a panacea an exodus into the corn fields and rolling prairie land is obviously Utopian and quite impossible under the conditions of the present civilization. But it is not too much to expect, and it is almost an essential to continued existence, that something of those principles of sincerity, steadfastness, and of courage, which are found in the country may be transplanted in the city. There is something wrong with a civilization which forces twenty men in a single October afternoon to jump out of tall buildings because a stock fell ten points. It is a lack...
Play writing develops and stimulates creative ability, a phase which universities, Harvard in particular, are inclined to overlook. Formerly this aspect was treated by Professor George Pierce Baker and the 47 Workshop, and it is the gap left by his exodus that the Cambridge School of the Drama attempted to fill...