Word: happening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...photographer never knows what is going to happen; he is doing something different every minute, and on never tell when he will be called out on some important job. The variety in the work makes it seem more like a bobby than a profession, and many men have found it so interesting that they spend a great deal of time in taking photographs without compensation, as a form of recreation...
...stairs in Sever by a little foresight in choosing courses; that they may insure against the annoying Saturday sections by the exercise of discretion. No doubt there are numerous other devices for smoothing the academic faith. Perhaps come new ones will be conceived today. Perhaps some brilliant Sophomore will happen upon a schedule without a single drawback...
...failed, when the war came, to take the part of the nation to which they recognized that they belonged. There had been an expectation that the socialists in Germany would refuse to support their Government and thus prevent war; but when the war came, that did not happen. In some cases, as in Alsace-Lorraine for example, the people, or many of them, did not consider that they belonged to the country that held sway over them; but that is another question, the question to what nation patriotism...
Comparisons are odious but one cannot help think of what would have happened under similar conditions in 1870-71, or what did happen in 1914, when whole villages were razed because of one or two Belgian snipers. Perhaps this difference arises from the fact that the Germans are trying their own offending countrymen--a thing almost unheard of in connection with war, until now--and that the German mind, when it sees itself defeated, invariably turns to self-palliation and vague excuses. Perhaps the difference is one of inborn moral sense; the Germans may never be able to realize that...
...real interest of such documents is of course for the scholar who can untangle and sort out the facts into a history of what did happen. The War Library is distinctly unusual feature of the University but it establishment was a natural addition to Widener. One of the reason why Harvard's library ranks at the top is that it concerned not only with musty documents of bygone times. Its policy of being concerned with the present as well as the past will undoubtedly make it responsible for some interesting additions to the literature of the near future...