Word: fled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...every 1000 students have lost their homes during the past six years. Last winter, in a cold rain, we picked up on the quay at Smyrna 40 students, all of whom had known deportation and exile, the loss of home and loved ones, and who had now fled suddenly from St. Paul's College in Tarsus to Symrua because of the French evacuation, and the turning over of Cilicia once more to the Turks. Today I do not know whether a single one of these boys is alive or where he is, for within the past few weeks you have...
...afternoon by the return of William, the Black Sheep; or, as William aptly characterizes himself, "I'm the family skeleton; can't you hear my bones rattle?" Unable to abide the domineering influence of his father or his interminable demands for "an explanation" of each wayward act, William had fled to America fifteen years before; now he fails to find the fatted calf awaiting--in fact he receives a decidedly frosty welcome from all but his mother and sister. One brother, David, has become a meek and cringing rector, while George, the other, is a Conservative candidate for Parliament; both...
...returns is that the total University registration will be on of the largest on record, and probably actually the largest. The Freshman class is larger than it was last year. A unusual number of men have transferred to Harvard College from other institutions and have signed up as "Unclass fled" students. The total enrollment for the College is sure to be 2500. The Graduate School of Business Administration has been swamped with applicants yesterday and last night was a sured of a registration much larger that it had ever had before. The Law School enrollment was large, and the Engineering...