Word: heralding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vice, the stigma of which the ignorant seek to smear across our scutcheon. But the world knows what is written beneath in letters of gold. We cannot add a cubit to our moral stature by yearning to be like those joyful sons of other institutions of learning who herald their democracy and mutual esteem by holing like wolves. Let us be content that the shades of the Puritan will always flit silently among us to dampen slightly our fervency and moderate our joy of living. Those sober men of the old time were not devoid of passion and numbered among...
...been a graduate of Harvard and Mr. Roosevelt of Yale, and Mr. Taft of Princeton, we might have seen, or at least seemed to see, the relation between a President's adult characteristics and his scholastic training, for as the twig is bent so is the tree inclined. Boston Herald...
...that a Boston syndicate is building a "fishing schooner" of an especially fast design with the intention of carrying off the International Fishing Boat trophy next summer, when the ships from Lunenburg and Gloucester again compete, has aroused, a storm of quite justified indignation in Canadian ports. The Halifax "Herald" which originally gave the trophy, conveys in an especially caustic editorial, the sentiments held by all lovers of fair play on both sides of the border. The cup was offered for bona-fide fishing vessels only and the races were to be sailed in whatever weather Dame Fortune...
...news in another column of today's "Herald," concerning the proposed Intercollegiate Conference to be held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology next April, should attract enthusiastic support and attention from every American undergraduate. Our college papers and fraternity magazines have broken down the college provincialism and ignorance of undergraduate life and organization at institutions other than our own, but they are not able to carry on a systematic discussion of undergraduate problems such as the conference will be able to do. Actual meeting with the leaders in the same line of activities from other colleges and the comparison...
...also will go a quantity of materials uncovered by Dr. Breasted in Egypt. The whole story of the finding and deciphering of these ancient records, the Egyptian hieroglyphics, the Assyrian cuneifornt, and other difficult inscriptions, is one of the fascinating tales of the patience and ingenuity of scholarship. Boston Herald...