Word: famed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...manner of proving the merits of a university has for some time been to cite the fame of its graduates. There are a hundred ways in which this fame is captured, and with no small amount of justice, reflected to the further glory of the institution which nurtured its early sprouts and buddings. The shadows of a president, a handful of scholars and a score of captains of industry suffice to keep almost any university in the benignant and dignified seclusion of accepted reputation...
...optimistic about the future of Harvard College, he who believes it to be more today than an outmoded survival of Puritan New England need wish for no better argument than the certainty that in each graduating class today there are more men whose undoubted fame in after life will bring little conventional credit to the University...
These men will have no tangible immortality in Harvard's traditions. Their names will no more be inscribed on records of Harvard's fame than will the names of those three dead Harvard graduates who gave their lives to the German cause in the Great War. Sometimes, as in this case, with the proposed building of a new memorial chapel to the Harvard dead, the question becomes embarrassing. But far oftener, the names of these infamous graduates are suffered to remain in the dust of newspaper morgues, known to few and acclaimed by none, while their spirit moves on, unchecked...
...heritage, her power and fame...
Baby Mine. Some 17 years ago, when a primitive U. S. cinema public chewed peanuts in its motion picture palaces, Roscoe Conkling ("Fatty") Arbuckle started on his way to fame. Like other actors, he preferred what was then the greater glory and emolument of the legitimate stage to the comparatively bastard screen. Baby Mine was his first vehicle (in stock company). In 1910, they say, it was a smart and even froward thing. In 1927, it looks like a bustle in a Shubert show. Mr. Arbuckle enacts a pulpy mass who alternately stews in sweaty fear and freezes in gelatinous...