Word: laurell
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John Dewey: Most renowned of living American philosophers, we rejoice to add our sprig of laurel to his crown...
...likes especially the traditions, now fast fading, which cling around the College Yard. For him each one as it passes is a laurel plucked by ruthless hands from John Harvard's pate. The Houses in their crass contemporaneity he is reconciled to not by the vulgar convenience of dining-room and private shower, but purely as breeding-grounds of the traditions of the future. In the meantime he feeds his soul on what remains of times done: the charming fatuity of a raucous voice calling for "Rinehart!" and especially the Yard Concerts, which are always with...
Willie Johnson, 18, got Ruby Crook, 17, in trouble. The Crooks, finding Ruby pregnant, sent her away, promised "to take care of the Johnsons." While the rest of the community was attending services at the New Salem Baptist Church, on the border of Clay and Laurel Counties, the families met in the church yard. The Crooks "took care" of three Johnsons. The Johnsons "took care" of two Crooks. Willie Johnson survived with a slug...
Before the reading, during the regular meal hour, there will be a 1935 Christmas dinner. The large dining room will be appropriately decorated in holly and laurel, with fires going in the large fireplaces. A. C. Hanford, dean of the College, Delmar Leighton '19, dean of the freshmen, Matthew Luce '91, regent of the University, Henry Pennypacker '88, chairman of the Committee on Admissions, with W. J. Bender '27 and Henry Chauncey '27, 1935 assistant deans, will all be guests of the first year class and have dinner at the Union...
...expert golfer, Funnyman Hardy has won 24 cups and two gold medals; nonetheless, he is fat and soft-looking. Laurel is thin and pale, speaks with a low-grade London accent. Funnyman Laurel seems to be the more stupid of the two, but not by very much. In Pardon Us, the teacher in the prison school asks him how many times 3 goes into 9. Laurel's answer: "Three times-and two left over." Hardy's answer: "He's wrong-there's only one left over...