Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shall take my new 140-foot schooner," said Von Luckner, "with about ten men from different universities, and five German boys, fine fellows, and go on a cruise for real adventure. You Americans don't know enough about life on the sea, you have no real sailormen; your sailors are all in unions, and they go to sea merely because they can get good pay. You should interest your young boys...
...sailors are comrades, and I want to be friends with everyone. When a boy is called to war, it is his highest duty to answer his country's call. It is not his fault that he must have enemies. But when the war stops, we must become friends. Our life is too short to waste in holding a grudge against anyone. Sailors, who have faced a hurricane together, know what true comradeship is worth...
...most important factors in the formation of America and at the same time one now almost completely misunderstood is that of Puritanism. Those who have any interest in increasing their knowledge about this phase of American life have a choice of lectures today which discuss the Puritan civilization from different points of view. Professor R. B. Perry speaks at 10 o'clock in Emerson D on "The Critique of Puritanism," and at the same hour Professor Murdock will discuss "The Mathers" in Harvard...
...lengthening past-figures too dim to be noticed by the idle, too symbolic to be interpreted except by her pupils, but to the discerning eye disclosing every painful step and every world-shaking contest by which mankind has worked and fought its way from savage isolation to organic social life...
Even so cosmopolitan a citizen of the college world as the Vagabond did not spring into being full-blown, but had to start his undergraduate life in the Freshman dormitories. Among the many little questions about this and that which he remembers to have troubled those youthful days was how one mere division was sufficient to contain all the wisdom of the three fields of History. Government and Economics. If there are any others still not quite clear as to the relation the price of General Motors bears to the Chinese civil war the lecture to be given this morning...