Word: lege
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Samuel Johnson. Friends found the same bluff exterior, the same "heart," the same relish in humor. The parallel between Dr. Allen Johnson and Dr. Samuel is obvious, superficial. Dr. Allen Johnson is diffident, crisp, quietly intellectual. Graduated from Amherst in 1892 he received his M. A. from that col lege three years later, the same year that President Coolidge was graduated cum laude. He has published a biography of Stephen A. Douglas, has delved deeply in to early Americana. At Yale, he was Larned Professor of American History. Since 1926 he has edited his Dictionary. The Dictionary will contain...
...Story of Gay Leonard-for it is far more her story than Dolly Quinn's - makes one of the better contemporary novels.- She is one of those astonishingly fragile moths, dusted with gold, who first distract football behemoths at col lege proms; then able young busi ness men at country club week ends; then men-about-town, reputable and otherwise. These moths cease to discriminate as their pow er and need of distraction increase. Sometimes they alight safely, their powdery gold dusts away and they become more or less plumply con tented. Other times, especially if their wits...
ness men who are able to aid the colleges, "He had a deep loye for his col lege and he helped his college in many ways in token of that love...
...lege generations will produce? What is the limit of our collegians? I would not care to prognosticate on such a subject, but there is a further contrast in I. C. A. A. A. A. winning performances which indicates that the intrusion of the world war may have figured in slowing up the development of the athletes...
...large part of my income is derived, I have determined to give the residue of my property to public purposes, and I wish, in so doing, to devote it to an institution to which my children have been indebted; and I can think of none better than Harvard Col- lege, at which both my sons graduated, one in the class of 1887 and the other in the class of 1890. I therefore . . . do hereby give the residue of my estate . . . to the President and Fellows of Harvard College, the income of one molety to be applied for the purpose...