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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which the aeroplane has received in this country and contrasting it, amid gloomy forebodings, with the giant strides taken in this field by Europe. Admittedly the pessimists have facts to uphold the contrast. France is blessed with eight companies which handled about fifteen thousand passengers and thirty tons of express and mail in the year just passed, and by means of government subsidies even managed to make both ends meet. But America has only her mail planes, a few private companies operating for the most part as novelties around Atlantic City and Palm Beach, and no subsidies whatever. Indeed...
...sleep like dogs" - a hard life in many ways, and a productive life; but not one which develops writers like Do Quincy or Poe, or readers who can appreciate the genius of another civilization portrayed in a foreign tongue. It matters not that the languages were once alive and expressed the thoughts and deeds of great nations, there is not time to read them. We have English to express our own ideas; what need of bothering with Rome or Athens and their streets...
...infrequently go to far. The words 'new' and 'progressive' are charms in America." For example, the latest type of examination in American colleges is a long list of questions to be answered merely by "yes" or "no". "It is like saying, if you have an idea, please don't express...
...that date: "In the past two or three years too few members of each class have shown sufficient interest in class affairs to vote for the officers of the class. The two sections . . . are intended to prevent lack of interest in class affairs and to make all elections express the opinion of a decided majority of the members of the class...
...CRIMSON wishes to take this opportunity to express its appreciation for the action which the Governing Boards of the University have taken in the matter of posthumous degrees for honorable service in the war. The University has shown admirable tact in adding to her roll of graduates these twenty-eight men who did not complete their college courses. Harvard is honored in numbering them among her sons. They have fought for her ideals and gladly given up their lives. This reward, slight though it is, will carry their memory down to future generations of Harvard...