Word: homing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...history. Their classmates have changed and more even than they the College has changed. But in these almost frenzied affairs there should come the consciousness of a simpler more quiet welcome, and the CRIMSON wishes to extend to all returning graduates the sincere wish that they may feel at home in a Harvard which differs from the one they knew only in the more obvious externals...
Engineer Court last week was walking home from the building where he tends furnaces when a stranger offered him $10,000 for his ticket. Shrewdly Mr. Court refused, said later to newsgatherers: "I knew then I had something good, so I just held on to it." That night he learned that he had won. Engineer Court's plans: to "take that vacation after all and go fishing," to buy his own home, to provide education for his children, Lawrence, Florence, Floracene, Juanita, Clyde. His other three children are already educated. Engineer Court will not, however, receive the entire value...
...jolly girl, and the patrons of the Tucker House, many of them show people, told her she ought to go on the stage. They made fun of her deep, mournful voice, telling her they liked the way she sang. One night she ran away from home leaving a letter informing her father that she would never come back until she was famous. She plugged black-face songs in movie houses until, in 1907, she got a vaudeville contract at $12.50 a week. One day when she was in burlesque her trunk didn't come and she had to sing...
...later so that "any person can find instruction in any study." There is an inaccurate tradition that Cornell is chiefly an agricultural college. Founders Cornell & White integrated the State-support idea with their own gifts so that today the New York State College of Agriculture, the State College of Home Economics, and the State College of Veterinary Medicine are part of Cornell University. But only about one-fifth of the total enrolment are students at these colleges, where tuition is free to bona fide residents of the state of New York. The rest are in colleges of Arts & Sciences...
...Edwin Greene (on the telephone): Edwin's dead. Voice: I'm dreadfully sorry! Mrs. Edwin: Oh, are you?-It's an easy thing to be. You've got your husband at home safely tied to your apron strings. You can afford to be. When more normal, Mrs. Edwin weeps three times daily...