Word: finding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...every city, south, west and even east of here, where Harvard men congregate,--and it is hard to find one where they do not,--a Harvard club has been organized to promote good fellowship and unity of Harvard interests. There is scarcely an issue of the Bulletin that does not relate the doings of some University organization with headquarters many miles from Cambridge. And yet here in Boston, where Harvard graduates are congregated, there is less unity among the alumni than in any city in the land...
...Come and Find Me," by Elizabeth Robins...
...demand that no important part of this shall be disregarded, that an individual writer who nowadays aspires to deal in authoritative fashion with all the phases and periods of the nation's history may indeed be accounted unduly ambitious. The historical student of our day and generation may well find in the mastery of a single period or a single phase the profitable employment of an industrious lifetime. Hence it has appeared to be only through the employment of some form of co-operation among several specialists that the production of a general history adequately comprehensive in scope and sufficiently...
...statement that it was reasonable because it would affect so few. As a matter of fact it affected a great many. Probation itself became blunted and worm-eaten by this idiotic rule. Does a man who has made a successful record in the fall in both sports and studies find himself better off than his neighbor who has competed to the detriment of his courses? Not a whit. Doesn't it seem reasonable that a man who can keep off probation the year round, taking part in two sports, could as easily compete in three? Because sure as water rises...
...true identity of the pseudo-governor is discovered, and he goes back to his old occupation of porter; and finds his affinity in a German maid of Priscilla's. The Americans are seized, as implicated in the hoax, and they try to return to 1908, but lose the charm. Matters are looking very dark for them, when the scene suddenly changes and they wake up to find themselves back in Boston...