Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fairbank '24, and Raoul Pantaleoni '24 were the Harvard representatives at the conference held in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently, when eighty-eight presidents, deans, and student representatives of New England colleges and schools assembled to discuss the work of the Student Friendship Fund in its relief of European student conditions...
...Henry Noble MacCracken of Vassar College; and Mr. Graham R. Taylor of New York City both declared not only that a continuation of assistance from American colleges and schools is necessary if European education is to be saved from complete collapse, but also that the work of the Student Friendship Fund is contributing strongly to the development of a new spirit and a new morale in Europe, a democratic education has been made possible by the self-help activities instituted, the students have discarded their former unwillingness to work, and even professors may now be found engaging in heavy manual...
After fifteen years of active friendship for the League, it is an interesting fact that President Roosevelt gave the League five hundred dollars of the money he received from the Nobel Peace Prize, a fund which he distributed to the organizations and causes he considered most worthy of support...
...came to manhood just at the time of Caesar's conquest. His tribe crushed, his father killed, his sister driven to suicide, he was sold as a slave and sent to Rome. He was rescued from torture by Titus Barrus, young Roman aristocrat and Lieutenant of Caesar. A friendship as strange as it was deep grew up between them, its bonds so strong that it even forced Meromic to fight against his countrymen during the last campaign against Vercingetorix. But at last the claims of his people proved too strong for him; he went back to them (too late...
...little mechanical intricacy of plot but a strong thread binds it together?the thread of Fremont's inevitable and typically American struggle up from the status of a "neatherd"#151;his adventures in local politics?his love for Winifred Ashe and their runaway marriage?his friendship for the outlaw Bushyagers?Winifred's tragic death and the unhappy chance that left Fremont a widower, with two children to support and the debts of his somewhat rascally-father-in-law to shoulder?the great Bushyager murder trial and its subsequent lynching-bee and Fremont's facing of the mob that came...