Word: grows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...curtains out of Holden Chapel, and disfigured Hollis and old Stoughton. We learn the true history of that first President who beat his assistant unconscious with a club, half-starved the boys, and cheated to the tune of thousands of pounds. From this poor beginning we watch the academy grow to a college, and the college to a University, are present at the fights to found the first Medical School in America and the first Law School in the world. Suddenly, we find ourselves participating in--the same old dispute that rages now over Freshman Dormitory Commons. But our Freshmen...
...orator. He sees and fearlessly points out our faults--and we have many. But his fault-finding is not discouragement. He lets us look at the future, perhaps a little too glorious, but yet a future towards which we are surely advancing. We shall learn by our mistakes, and grow, till we become "the refuge, clearing-house, testing ground for the theatre of the world...
...most tolerant and broadminded statesmanship, especially among the great Powers. I hope and believe that 1924 will be brighter than 1923 as the world gradually struggles back from the great conflict. I cannot, of course, discuss international affairs or domestic policy, but I believe Anglo-American relations will grow more and more friendly as time goes on. I shall do my best toward that...
...Confessional?The older I grow the more I am persuaded that hedonism is the only sound and practical doctrine for an intelligent...
...cheerful news is beginning to appear. Oil producers prophesy curtailment of production, and the prices of crude have been raised in some fields. Steel orders are reported in prospect. Agricultural surveys show that the farmer is far from insolvent, excepting in the wheat belt. Cotton planters who managed to grow much cotton are well off, although spinners' takings here show another tendency to decline in fear of a curtailment of consumption...