Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course one more instance to add to those which we observe daily in the buildings and Yard, of that youthful exuberance which puts the undergraduate on the top of the world; and as much we regard it with the same contented tolerance. That we once knew ourselves for let me whisper it--we were once undergraduates, and you, foul though the thought may be, will one day be Graduates, even...
...defence of that contentment which rewards our tolerance of Harvard youth, let me add that the Harvard Graduate body, while it welcomes good feelings wherever found, is an unusually independent coterie; we find an ample society in that of our fellow-graduates, whose interests are so often near our own. We bring together a varied experience, at least as varied and I suspect more full than that of the classes of 1926-30; and we are even beginning to get our collars washed, so that, unless plus fours and sweaters are the only road to sartorial respectability, we are decently...
...Let me try to put together, in skeleton form, the political creed of the average American citizen, the dogmas which he accepts as fundamental truths notwithstanding their repuguance to the dictates of reason and to the teachings of experience. "Government must rest on the consert of the governed." "Democracy is government by the whole people." "The cure for the ills of a democracy is more democracy." (What a strange, article of faith that slogan embodies' Were I to say that the remedy for the evils of misgovernment is more misgovernment I should be saying something just as rational...
...Then let him turn to Kunitz' poem, "John Harvard", which won the Lloyd McKim Garrison prize for 1926 and read in vigorous and musical verse of "the silent one" who sits enthroned with his back to University...
...educated, was not very old when she presented herself to a startled publisher as the author of Other People's Houses, a novel which he was eager and fortunate to publish. That was 17 years ago when girls just out of their teens simply did not write novels, let alone good ones. She carried the thing further with A Big Horse to Ride (1911) and queened it in all the studios that counted. Then, abruptly, she stopped writing,. married and went out to Washington, to raise hogs and struggle with a husband of whom the less said the better...