Word: expression
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President of the Cammarian Club of Brown University, I wish to express to Harvard students and alumni the apologies of our undergraduate body for the conduct of our over-enthusiastic students in tearing down the Harvard goal posts. We have always appreciated the courtesy and treatment shown the Brown teams and students visiting Cambridge, and we regret exceedingly that this should have happened. Very truly yours. Parkman Sayward...
Died. Cornelius Cole, 102, oldest ex-U. S. Senator; in Los Angeles. He was a placer-miner in California in '49, knew well the bravest days of the Golden State?the stagecoach, the pony-express, the vigilantes. Lincoln's friend, he heard the Gettysburg address, was with the President on the day of his assassination. He was one of the twelve who organized the Central Pacific Railroad; the last of that stern company of senators who impeached President Andrew Johnson...
...express invitation of Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes, acting in the name of the U. S. Government, M. Firmin Gémier, who has for many years been the director of Le Theatre National de I'Odéon of Paris, arrived in the U. S. to produce some of his famous plays. The invitation was not merely a courteous act toward M. Gémier, but a gracious recognition of France...
This number of the Advocate deserves the patronage of every member of the University. In many ways it is stimulating, but chiefly because the men who are writing for it seem to have definite ideas and the ability to express them. Altogether, it is a commendable number...
Even Americans, if thoughtful, will realize that a hybrid, even as American culture is hybrid, he caught the vigor and rude strength of life in newly settled California. His clear, pointed style has swept the ceremonious diction of the Victorian writers from American fiction; and above all, he express that gaiety and resilience which are the distinguishing American characteristics. Bret Harte is the prophet of humor and humanity, but like most prophets he is honored everywhere but in his own land...