Word: golden
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Knowing that addition of advice makes for subtraction of wit, in spite of the strong yearnings of the counsellor, we shall refrain from making the usual comments, surpassing the usual exhortations, or triplicating the usual golden prophecies...
...graduates are always welcomed, for they see in us a memory, however slight of that which they once were. Although they are sure that in the golden mirage of their youth they were never so callous, nor so ignorant, nor so self-satisfied. And so, in mutual reflection and compassion we shall meet each other...
This war is not horrible and a thing to be shunned as some old men, enwrapped in terror, would believe. Nor is it a youthful adventure, in which brave young men may aspire to the love-knots and golden spurs of knighthood. It is a hard and rather dirty business which must be carried out in the wisest way, with due attention to its quickest and complete accomplishment. It must be carried out by those who are most able to do so, by those who, having reached an age of manhood, assume the responsibility of defending the older...
There are to be three Susan Anthony Potter Prizes for the year 1916-17. A prize of $75 is to be awarded for the best essay on a subject dealing with the Spanish literature of the Golden Age. This competition is open to all undergraduates of the University and closes on May 1, on or before which date all manuscripts must be delivered at the office of the Secretary of the Faculty, University...
...would be ill advised, to enumerate the scores of Americans stranded destitute in the great capitals of the southern republics, who went in the love of romance to find the idealized Utopia of all men dreams, hoping with a little ingenuity and some work to achieve the golden success of life. In any country such adventurers will be found...