Word: journey
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...turn of the century, U. S. headmasters found it a prodigious job to get their students into college. No uniform requirements existed, each college held its own examinations in June or September. to which the candidates were obliged to journey no matter how far. In 1899 a national Entrance Board was suggested by Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, who already, at 37, was a moving spirit in U. S. pedagogy. Many an august college president objected. But Harvard's liberal Dr. Charles William Eliot approved, pointing out that such a board would only set the examinations. Colleges could still admit...
...Sentimental Journey...
...Donaldson's "A Sentimental Journey" is a clever bit, in which smart young people talk of serious matters obliquely; the brilliance of their conversation is scintillating and altogether impossible, but it makes good reading. Mr. Swain's "Young Emile Chadwick" presents a variation or two on the O. Henry formula, and the reader struggles to accept the formula so that he may enjoy the effect...
...peoples of Wales for dear little Princess Elizabeth. My small daughters and I were greatly interested. But now I see in the Times' Rotogravure section for April 3 pictures of the poor wrecked house gutted by fire, and we wonder how it could have become ignited on its journey to the Princess. Although I recall seeing no mention of any of this in TIME, still I feel it is news that interests mothers and little girls, at least, and I should be greatly obliged if you could give some details of the unfortunate end of such a kindly-meant...
Gentlemen, our time is come. The mists of four years have passed away and we stand in the clear sunlight of the last hour. Soon Harvard will be but the tavern where once a pleasant night was spent in a long journey. The world that lies before us is big with ruin for it has been the drill ground of feet of clay. On our horizon there is thunder as well as dawn. But the past day has been fair...