Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tour the Library. At Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Vassar College, in its 63rd year, abandoned a precedent, allowed the freshmen to report the same day as other classes, instead of a week earlier. The enrollment was kept down, as of late years, to 1,150. President Henry Noble MacCracken was heard in the college chapel, likewise Dean C. Mildred Thompson. The dominant innovation of the year was a "court of appeals" for student government- teachers and taught holding the bench jointly. At Washington, D. C., the Navy Department announced the establishment, at George Washington University and at St. John...
...lecture begins with an anecdote which Dr. Conwell claims to have heard from a Persian guide who was taking him down the Tigris. An ancient merchant dreamt a dream of diamonds, acres of diamonds and, on awaking from sleep, went to a priest of Buddha to ask where he should go to find such riches. The priest told him that if he could find a river that flowed over white sand between high mountains, the bed of that river would be full of diamonds. The merchant sold his orchards, granaries, fields, gardens, and traveled "over all the world" until...
Such statements he salted with catchy quips, shrewd witticisms. It is believed by some that great numbers of people owe their fortunes to having heard this lecture...
...Associate in Biological Chemistry at Columbia University. This book was first published in 1921, when professional respect for endocrinology still hovered in skeptical abeyance; and when popular acceptance of one of the Century's more important revelations did not proceed much farther than the glandular jokes to be heard on Broadway...
...barking of coaches and quarterbacks, the thudding of balls and bodies, the grinding, milling rush of the scrimmage line was heard on college practice fields throughout the land. King Football, a popular monarch, entered his 62nd year...