Word: finding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three legged man had a right to Oscar's interest. For haven't you all wanted to see a professional three legged race? What was our dismay to find that this fellow had never been in one. It seems his mother was a beared lady. And she did whatever running there was to be done. Anyway he took a great fancy to my roommate and gave him a message to deliver to the American Association of Boot and Shoe Manufacturers at their next meeting...
...diffusion, itself, of such a mass of detail is not, however, without its own attractiveness. It but leaves the reader to share the work of artistry and from his knowledge of the subject covered, to select his own entertainment. Alumni will find the descriptions of men they knew and mention of comments and characterizations they may themselves have made or heard. Undergraduates will find the roots of many traditions and the sense of the dignity and aristocratic nature of academic work, which is even yet a part of the New England atmosphere...
...chaotically enough, provoke the emotions but the relation of these things to a masterful novel is less than that of sand to granite. Not only should, in this case the parts or particles cohere more closely but there might well be other elements sifted in. One fails to find in Saltacres either character or situation satisfyingly delineated; and it is insufficient solace to turn to the desolate animation worn by the features of nature...
...least partially to the youth of the Western colleges, there exists the large-headed, bull-mouthed, cubbish young Western undergraduate whom one does not find in the better sort of Eastern school, such as Williams. Here the restricted college roll produces a more mature student who has a certain amount of intellectual interest, and is not absorbed completely by athletics and girls, as is his Western brother...
...bequeath books for a mere pittance on the regal powers that be is such a dismal proceeding that it saps the strength of even those exuberant ones who have just emerged from the course in which texts were used. But they emerge to find a cold and heartless world, one dominated by Simon Legrees. Better, far better to assume the charitable and munificent pose and to give the books to the Phillipse Brooks House Library. There they will be appreciated, and the quality of gratitude will remain an unstrained...