Word: lastinger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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A little committee room became last week the hub of political interest. Five men sat during long hours sometimes lasting into the night to learn about prohibition. They were the subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Four are Drys. One, James A. Reed of Missouri, is wet.
But other aspects of student life in Oxford and Cambridge, which may more directly interest Harvard men, and which I have had opportunities of observing, strengthen my opinion that an establishment of resident student groups at Harvard, analogous to the English colleges, will restore to the undergraduates all the opportunities...
"We do not make peace in Syria and Morocco because we cannot. In both areas France is continuously the attacked, not the attacker; and there is no guarantee that peace, if made now, would last three months. . . . Abd-el-Krim has cost us too dearly for us not to fight...
Several press articles in 1906 and 1907 contain interesting commentaries on the way the play was received at the time. The Theatre Magazine of April 1906 says: "The joyousness of exuberant youth has been happily dramatized by Rida Johnson Young in "Brown of Harvard," and unless outward signs should fail...
Yet this like all other plans is but a plan. Not tomorrow or next week or next year is Harvard to divide in the manner suggested. Such processes like all lasting ones must be, of necessity, slow. But the start has been made already, and not alone in the brains...