Word: haying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...came; the man who is President received the man who would like to be President; an executive who had pitched hay on a Vermont farm met an executive who had sold fish at the Fulton market. Historians, political observers, reporters, photographers yearned for ringside seats; but the gates of White Pine Camp clicked shut after the Governor and Mrs. Smith had entered...
...acquired 35,000 acres of land in Livingstone County, N. Y., have occasionally taken part in politics and not infrequently in wars. His father and grandfather fought in the Civil War; he himself served in the Spanish-American War. After warring he turned to farming. He married Alice Hay, daughter of Secretary of State John Hay, in 1902, and since then has been much in politics. What is concerned chiefly in the present situation is that in earlier days he voted against the 18th Amendment and for the Volstead Act. He has been rated nominally Dry, but moist in inclination...
Professor Charles E. Rugh of the University of California has given an old saw a picturesque rebirth. The colleges, he asserts "heap knowledge upon a student like hay" and then say "stack it yourself." This complaint is nothing but the platitude, dear to all educational declaimers, that method is more essential than fact, reason than memory. Still admitting the great age of this truism, one cannot but be glad of an occasional restatement to refresh an ideal...
...developed in practice, nearly half a century before its adoption at Harvard, and many years before it became generally the basis of what seems to me to have been essentially a strategic retreat of educators from an increasingly unmanageable mass of modern knowledge. Looked at historically, I think the hay-field episode is an accurate illustration of what has happened in our colleges during the last century. Overwhelmed by new facts that were coming faster than they could be managed, educators slid off the stack, stuck the pitchfork into the ground, and, turning to green freshmen, said, with the profanity...
...were putting up hay on Cal Shinn's farm. Among the six was a swashbuckling braggart who offered to bet five dollars that he could stack all the hay that the other five of us could pitch to him. We took the bet, prorating it at a dollar apiece. We laid the base for a stack and began pitching in dead earnest. The man on the stack managed to keep his head above hay for a while, but before long he was up to his neck in hay that he could not handle. He managed to extricate himself from...