Word: haven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college, or in one of the graduate schools, whether they are freshmen or seniors. It is the one place where all may become acquainted; the place where one can best see college life. For those who are in Cambridge for the first time, it is a haven of refuge, it is a place near the "yard" where all may meet; a place where one may forget, for a while the wories of getting settled and lose himself in the pleasure of reading his home newspaper, or in a game of pool, or billiards, or bridge...
...Bible-sellers have felt the boom and prepared popular editions of that much-feared-for book. But if any new Evolution text for laity should be absolved of the Dayton imprimatur it is the present volume. Mr. Ward, lately a teacher at the Taft School, lives in New Haven, Conn., where he is an imtimate of Professors Woodruff, Keller and Lull* of the Yale University Faculty all of whom checked his manuscript before it was accepted by the publishers...
...huge foreign motor car of primitive design, roaring by night through the streets of New Haven informed the inhabitants of that town, some 25 year ago, that Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt was going out for the evening. The same vehicle, roaring back through the dawn, let them know that he would be in for the day. Even at that time the press had begun to refer to him as "Reggie" and to point with horror to his unhallowed pleasures. His classmates, however, voted him "the most likely to succeed in life...
...have ladies on the side to whom they dedicate their later afternoons. This lady happened to turn up in this five o'clock man's own home where, very properly, his wife was living. If you have been much to French farce, or indeed if you haven't, you can probably call most of the author's shots. Yet you cannot deny his ingenuity in playing an old game with fair shrewdness. He is especially assisted by Arthur Byron in the title part, offering what is probably the best performance of the month...
Under the cliffs of Disko, near God-haven, an Eskimo kyak (canoe) manned by men in yellow oilskins hailed the pitching Bowdoin in some strange and unintelligible language. As the range shortened, it was perceived that the men spoke English, that they were Mac-Millan's companion-explorers from the Peary, which had preceded the Bowdoin to Disko and lay at anchor around a point...