Word: lettered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meat raw. . . . Many harsh things have been said about Bonfils and Tammen. Maybe TIME is broad enough and can spare the space to print the estimate of one man who through many years of association believes he got to know the real Bonfils and Tammen. I refer to a letter I wrote to Bonfils when Tammen died in 1924. It follows: "Ever since early this morning when the wires of the press associations flashed the news, 'Harry Tammen is dead,' into the office, I have been pondering what I could say that would palliate the grief that...
...letter of Dean Hanford on the probable outcome of the Reading Period is generous in its attitude towards the student body, but it, is a generosity not entirely misplaced. There can be no question whatever, to anyone with a representative circle of acquaintances, that in the weeks since Christmas there has been more work done in Cambridge, in and out of the library, than has been customary at such a time. Whatever the casualty list from the examinations may be, whatever the attitude of the average student may have been, the Reading Period has not been taken as a joke...
...Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, professed ignorance of the identity of Alumnus Aquaticus." "He deposited the money in a Boston bank, and when ever I write to him, I leave my letter there," he said...
...this guy E. W. A. K.? What a fool he must be." The wastebasket moved a trifle. "These guys sure do bawl me out." Another letter capped the debris in the basket. The telephone rang...
Dropping politics into the wastebasket along with another letter, "Bossy" withdrew education again. "If I'd wanted to, I coulda been one of the best college students goin'. I got the bug on law. I'd really show some of them buzzards if I was a lawyer. Prohibition, now I used to argue for prohibition, but it's just a damn farce the way it's going now. We oughta be free, and do what we want to. What's the Statue of Liberty for, anyway...