Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brooks House does more than minister to the religious and philanthropic needs of the University. Together with its branches in the graduate schools, through its library, its gatherings during the year, its dinners at Thanksgiving and Christmas, and in half a dozen other ways. Brooks House keeps a friendly eye on the interests of all members of the University, graduate and undergraduate alike. The fact that some may not use the facilities is no reason for not supporting it. Every man has obligations to his fellows and to the community. Most of these are taken care...
...Admiralty went ahead in his carriage; the Deputy Marshal carried the Silver Oar; the two City Marshals would not have been out of the picture for any money. It was a brave company, and not the least brave was Captain William Kidd, looking with a calm, unflinching eye on the vulgar herd waiting for the final scene in his romantic career. He was not the first of his profession to go to Execution Dock, which, as Stow has reminded us, was the usual scene of execution for hanging of pirates and sea-rovers at the low-water mark, and there...
...present than even fifty years ago is being clutched eagerly, almost feverishly, by the very private interests whose cry was loudest for personal freedom a century ago. The difference is in the changed conditions of life; the demand for big things done on a big scale, and the eye-opening effect of the war upon methods of government cooperation in industry. Public opinion is as powerfully behind government intervention now as it was opposed in the days of Jeffersonian democracy...
...suggests that the speaker had a twinkle in his inward eye when he summoned Youth to labor for leadership. He knew that intelligent, earnest effort is the lesson which Youth must learn, and he understood that the way to encourage it was to offer attractive rewards in the form of freedom and progress. What he says about a rebellion of Youth we must take with a grain of salt. He himself hardly wants Age to be thrown in the discard; what he does want, artfully, is for Youth to want it so; because he knows that only through the discontent...
...external eye, the Arboretum remains simply as an attractive park full of luxuriant and unusual blossoms. The present display of lilacs, and the rhododendroms and azaleas which follow soon after, are the most famous of the exhibits. Thousands visit it each year, approaching it by automobile through the Fenway or by elevated to the Forest Hills station; this Harvard Museum of Nature is open to all throughout...