Word: griefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...felt wherever high ideals, brilliant intellect, and the finest kind of public service are held in esteem. It will be felt especially in America, where his efforts as Ambassador from Great Britain have brought about the best relations between the two countries. The University has a special cause for grief; Viscount Bryce has always been a loyal sympathizer with higher education in general, as well as a warm friend of Harvard. Those who were privileged to hear him speak at the Union last fall, were impressed not only with the broad scholarship of a man who could write two such...
...given himself more completely to the service of the paper, his chief interest in Harvard. We respected and admired him as a fellow-worker; we cherished him as a friend. To his family we can only say that we appreciate the extent of their loss and share their grief...
...whole book; it is the sad acknowledgement of the power of winter, death and darkness, coupled with an absolute assurance in the eventual victory of spring and new love and morning. In "September", "Rain Before Day", "A Letter From England" and others is traceable this what might be called grief-taught optimism. It is far from joyous overconfidence, but rather a faith that has the freshness and clearness of a dawn wind after a night of storm...
...know him who will not understand that the loss is far more than a loss to any single class. As true a Harvard man as the under graduates, of the our time will ever know has gone; there is no one of us who need not share the grief of his friends...
...artificial bunkers and traps which guard the course to Cambridge. If we are willing to temper the wind to the handicapped lamb, let us by all means knock down a few bars and allow the relieving breeze to guide him gently to us; if not, why indulge in poignant grief at our own exclusiveness? Let us be honest with ourselves and others--let us retain our artificial barriers and glory in the fact that we have them in order to eliminate the lazy and inefficient, or let us remove them if we wish to compete on equal terms with...