Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...give you the particulars of still another statue erected to a Jew in this country. It stands in the city of Indianapolis, and is that of a (then) young lawyer Nathan Morris, erected, as stated on it, to recognize an act of supreme heroism, in giving his life to save others in a fire. BENNO LEWINSOX...
...certainly do not want my child to becomes a singer or an actor, because professionals lead a dog's life. An operatic career requires an iron constitution and means continual travelling around; people think we just have one grand time right along, but we really have to live almost exclusively for others, and our performances must come off whether we are dead or alive...
...secondary schools are loaded so heavily with requirements outside the practice of the European lycees because our life, our industry, our practical achievements demand and exact that condition. Nor can we change the situation so long as this difference between the European and the American culture exists. Perhaps the relief for the colleges to which President Lowell looks forward will have to rest, as he suggests, on the commencement of serious teaching at a younger age on the carrying on of early instruction at a more rapid and intensive rate. And here, once more, we come into conflict with...
Those of you who have come to Harvard for the first time will doubtless find here things which make your life different from that in the universities of your native lands. You may find some of our many systems of instruction strange. You may think that some of the requirements of courses and credits are too rigid. You may feel that our community puts too much emphasis on the sports which we call athletics. But I hope none of these things will discourage you, and I think you will not find a lack of facilities for scholarship. Magnificent libraries...
...course all of your 24 hours cannot be given to the republic of letters at Harvard. You will want to carry back to your country, also, impressions of the republic of the United States of America, and in after years they may be as significant to you as your life in this republic of letters. I hope you will improve every opportunity to study and reflect upon America. Its size will baffle you, perhaps, and I am sure you will want to suspend your judgments until you have had some experience with American life, if possible in other parts...