Word: illustri
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is going on in the "divided psyches" of these young men, thinking which is far afield from these supposed endeavors. Your Senior, if at all given to thinking, is already chafing under the hard task-master, the May examinations. He remembers that some of Harvard's finest "illustri"--Emerson, for example, and Thoreau keeping himself in the pink of condition waiting for something to turn up and Henry Adams with his cloquent disenchantment in his "Education", and Roosevelt, and John Reed, and Walter Lippman and a host of others--he remembers that these men were all given...
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