Word: host
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...living filled with far sighted generosity you have been trained, not only for your own benefit, but also for service to the country where you have been born. There lies the most vital point. John Harvard, and the benefactors who followed him, whose example has been followed in a host of other colleges, were inspired by a desire to help their own community, but they had no conception of the vast area over which the seed they nourished would bear fruit. When the earlier colleges were planted the small settlements on the Atlantic sea-board were laboriously pushing their...
Much heralded, and burdened with a host of favorable criticisms, "The Emperor Jones" comes to the Selwyn under auspices that would prove fatal to any but the most robust product. Over praise is the only complaint from which it suffers. When one goes to the theatre expecting to see "America's greatest drama," and to come away with hair on end, feeling like the proverbial jelly, it is just a little disappointing to receive only a moderate thrill, and to have the guilty suspicion either that your ideas of the greatest drama are all wrong, or that someone has exaggerated...
...wonders whether this is not a great book. There is evident sincerity of purpose, vividness of portrayal and above all a fearless narration of emotion that mark it out from a host of others. Peter may be short lived but Julie will we imagine live on many years in the hearts of thousands of readers...
...records are so complex and concern such a host of varied topics, that it has taken five solid days of my own time and that of my two confreres. Dr. Bonaparte and Leon Cavallo, to sort and tabulate the material. But our patience has had its own reward; we are now equipped with all the data needed for running a great university on the most efficient plan...
...would seem. Never before have the products of our scholastic green-houses been so much in demand; in order to supply the market, our few hardy perennials in the way of tutoring schools, have been reenforced by a host of smaller "bureaus" which have sprung into being, mushroom--like. Nor is it difficult to find the, life-giving force which has coaxed these seedlings through the hard intellectual crust of Cambridge--never before have the rates for tutoring been so high: Our mathematical economists have not been slow to figure out a close relation between the high tariff on "repeated...