Word: fulle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard, I gave four lectures. At the fourth, 1200 people listened to me, something one never sees at a lecture in France. I also spoke at girls colleges. Nothing is more full of beauty or seriousness. At Wellesley, for example, I had an audience composed of 800 girls and one man. So I began my lecture, Ladies and gentlemen!. And the youthful crowd broke out into laughter. It is necessary, on the other side of the Atlantic, to know how to mix the serious and the whimsical...
Alfred Chester Hanford has been appointed Dean of Harvard College to succeed Dean Chester Noyes Greenough '98, who-has held that office since 1919, first as Acting Dean until 1922 when he assumed his present position as Dean. Dean Greenough resigns to devote full time to his teaching of-English. The appointment of Professor Hanford will take effect September 1, 1927, when he will also become Associate Professor of Government...
...appalling thing to see a great State in the full exercise of its faculties, steer deliberately toward an act of profound and irrevocable injustice. Judicial murder has often been committed by mistake, by inadvertence, or through an accidental accumulation of misleading circumstancial evidence. There is no perfect justice in human affairs. But this is not a case of stumbling in the dark while trying to see: it is a case of wilfully closing eyes to the light. It is not necessary that justice should be always achieved; it is necessary that we have the will to achieve justice...
...Someone had asked Mary Viner as a child why she so disliked going to school, and had received the pregnant reply: ' 'Cos one does the same thing every day'; and at the age of 23 Mary was still resenting repetition. Only more so, because life had become more busily full of dreary tidyings and cleanlinesses, of washings up and washings down, of moments that smelt of yellow soap, and tea leaves and paraffin...
Furze, meanwhile, marries a waitress whose full bosom heaves with eagerness to scrub the floors he walks on. She, Rose, shares his passion for the practical, his desire to toil and spin and then plough fields to get up a sweat. With her he is happy...