Word: lies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University speakers showed that there exists in many colleges a decided stress on commercialism, and that these universities do not contribute to the greatness of a civilization as much as colleges which dispense culture and the background of a liberal education. The further evils of stressing business in colleges lie in the premature choice of a career which a boy must make under such a regime and in the mistaken belief of the boy that the best things which college has to offer are the social and extra-curricular activities...
...ordinary citizen is content to refute the pacifist by the Johnsonian argument of knocking him down, but all intelligent men, including, tentatively, college men, must admit that much more important problems of psychological morality lie back of the question, "To fight or not to fight?" Dr. Richards will speak tonight on some of these problems as they must be met by Christians...
...interest must still lie with the power of the press. In choosing his trade H. R. H. might have become a bricklayer. Certainly the emolument of that profession is higher. But the Prince remained true to literature; and any future protestations of literary indifference may well be taken with a grain of salt...
More than half a century ago, a Manhattan rector refused to perform in his church Lie burial service of an actor who had been greatly loved by his fellow stage-folk. He suggested, however, that there was a little church around the corner which might...
...John. This boy went to school till he was 17, was then bound apprentice to a surgeon, read Wordsworth, Byron, Spenser, looked into Chapman's Homer, wrote some stumbling poetry, made friends with Editor Leigh Hunt, Painter Haydon, Etcher Joseph Severn, Publish- er's Reader Woodhouse. Although lie was only five feet high, the beauty of his countenance and the vivacity of his manners charmed all who met him; the more discerning of his acquaintance found in his verse the evidence of great talent. He, happy in the promise of the career that opened before him, enjoyed life immensely? when...