Word: gained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CRIMSON sees no reason either to commend or to deplore the results of the ballot. The response reveals that the project was not sufficiently attractive to gain adequate support. Therefore it must submit to at least a temporary halt. There are, however, other avenues of approach to this problem. Eventually there will come a change in eating habits in Harvard University; realizing this, the CRIMSON has tried to prepare for that change. That its essay has not met with success is in no way a proof that its efforts have been misdirected...
...difficult problem of news gathering, presented in its most acute form in the colleges where editors and reporters must also to a certain extent be students, has existed since the earliest days of college newspapers. At that time when journalism was still struggling to gain a definite place in the undergraduate life of the larger universities the much hearalded indifference of Harvard men made the task of the early Herald-Crimson particularly trying. In 1884, the first year of the new daily, protests by undergraduates about the scantiness of the news appearing in its columns brought forth a vigorous editorial...
...well be asked, with all these far-reaching agencies right under his nose cannot the young journalist gain a first hand and accurate conception of politics which will be invaluable to him when he throws his own hat in the political ring? Unfortunately this young journalist will find no "open sesame...
...theatres and movies; we watch somebody else knock a ball over the fence or kick it over the goal bar. I do that and I believe in it. I do, however, insist that no other organized joy has values comparable to the joys of the out-of-doors. We gain less from the other forms in moral stature, in renewed purpose in life, in kindness and in all the fishing beatitudes. We gain none of the constructive rejuvenating joy that comes from return to the solemnity, the calm and inspiration, of primitive nature. The joyous rush of the brook...
...people to develop poetic ecstasy. The fruits of more than 200 inspirations reached the New York Times; the New York World reported 2% bushels of verse. But at Le Bourget, shortly after Captain Lindbergh landed a fortnight ago, there was a poet who squatted on the flying field to gain first-hand inspiration-like Francis Scott Key writing the Star Spangled Banner. The squatter was sleek Maurice Rostand, son of the late Edmond Rostand.* The results were disappointing, particularly when translated into English. An excerpt...