Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Abolishing the Yale football rally is abolishing a tradition. One might feel little guilty about that, did he not know that the tradition has been soured by unspontaneity. The game is where it has always been, on the knees of the gods and the linemen. And at the needful moment, in the Yale Bowl, it will be for the cheering section to show that Harvard's old and inextinguishable pride in the Harvard team has lost nothing more than a blurring anachronism...
Reference to his own experiences in Russia, Italy, and with the United States' bosses and rings, was made in the explanation of his subject, "How to get an education even in colleges. "Students must first find out what they want to know," he pointed out, "and get the answers not from faculties, but from life and the experimental method. Real education consists of stating unsolved problems, never trying again an old method that has failed, and continually improving by experiment new theories, trying them over and over again...
...Faculty has been divided into six groups, each of which will be especially invited to one tea. This arrangement makes it possible for students to know who will be present on specific days, so that they may come to the Teas when there are members of the Faculty there whom they wish to meet...
Mussolini has been a figure of mystery on the world stage. Yet of him we know little. What were his forebears like? What were the forces, the conditions of living, the secret fires of the man himself that made him II Duce, leader of Italy? Mussolini's s]tory is perhaps the most important public pronouncement by a world figure in many years...
Down in Oliver Street, where Alfred E. Smith came from, they took the opportunity to vote for a home boy, 610 to 66. It may also have comforted him to know that he had received more actual votes than any man who had ever previously run for President. If his total popular vote should exceed 18,000,000, it would be double John W. Davis' vote in 1924. And most of this he could rightfully attribute to himself rather than to the power of his party or the shrewdness of campaign managers...