Word: grave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Frenchmen dubbed him "The Father of Victory," and with that supreme laurel wreathing his brow he has felt it perhaps superfluous to emerge from well earned retirement. Last week, however, he followed the bier of an old friend and broke his long silence as he stood beside the open grave. The dead man thus greatly honored was M. Gustave Geffroy, 71, Président de 1'Académie Goncourt, Administrateur de la Manufacture des Gobelins,* a loyal associate of M. Clemenceau in his long fight to secure the freedom of Captain Dreyfus...
...significant perhaps of all the main proposals set forth is that for the progressive sub-division of the College into smaller groups numbering each a few hundred members. The plan itself is by no means new, but serious, open and general discussion of it is. There are unquestionably grave obstacles to its realization, and it will have to be determined how decisive these would prove. But certainly if the system were effectually established, it would remove many of the most fundamental faults in Harvard life. It appears to be in complete harmony with the genius and traditions of the University...
...Some fine morning La France will awake to find that old Clémenceau has been in his grave for a fortnight...
...these short stories, The Rich Boy, enters the Yale club of Manhattan and defines, with grave prescience, the tragedy of a man whose life began where many a life finishes, on a spiritually desert island. It compresses to 53 pages a wad of truth large enough for a thumping big novel...
...Nothing is taught at Harvard that cannot be learned elsewhere in half the time that Harvard takes to teach it." With such an ultimatum does that worthy journal, the Boston Advertiser, place ashes upon the grave of any over-sanguine faith in Harvard University...