Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Asked if Mr. Roosevelt had been knows and well liked during his college days, John replied, "Oh, he was a bright fellow, all right, even when he was here. However, he kept pretty much to him-self and not many knew...
...been fortunate in having success come to me, and still more fortunate in not having success chill or isolate me. A kind fate has endowed me with the combined gifts of practical qualities on the one hand, and appreciation of spiritual things, love of beauty and sympathy with my fellow beings on the other. Life is as vivid to me, the great adventure of living as thrilling, as in my early youth...
...Ford's automobile factories who on his death-bed was asked to give his idea of paradise. It had been this worthy man's occupation to give the second from the last turn to the last bolt on the chasis as they moved past him, his fellow worker standing beside him putting the finishing touch to the product. Now as he lay dying he could think of but one supreme desire, but one thing which to him to approach the unknowable paradise. His answer was short and unhesitating. "I should have liked sometime to have given that bolt its last...
...show that college fraternities are valuable institutions. Volumes more have been written to show that they are bad. A university president daring to come out flatly on college fraternities speaks more than volumes. Last week, President Max Mason of the University of Chicago spoke out in meeting: "If a fellow should buy a book in a course which he is not taking and should go back to his fraternity room, read it and think about it, he would be judged a queer fellow. And probably he would be. Scholarship today seems to be an affair for the shut...
...College were almost denuded of students who went out to fight for the independence of their country in the American Revolution. Today, in a manner no less striking though superficially less apparent, graduates of Harvard and its sister colleges and universities of America are leading the fight of their fellow countrymen for the independence of China...