Word: lifeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tutors and with as comfortable and agreeable surroundings as the Houses would afford" may not be as healthy as it is agreeable. It would be well suited to prep schools or graduate schools or any other highly specialized institutions. It would indeed produce a highly specialized sort of life, like that in the English universities or the small colleges in America. Indeed it seems that college life is inevitably too specialized, and that one thinks quite naturally of the students in the different colleges as leading one kind or another of very unnatural lives--except at Harvard, which is notoriously...
This just means that Copey counts in the life of Harvard men because undergraduates have always counted in his life...
...Start in life: Practicing law under the watchful eye of the late great Philander Chase Knox...
Before going off to War, Major Hurley asked the beauteous and accomplished Ruth Wilson to marry him. She sent him to her father, Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson, commander of the Atlantic fleet, then lying in the Hudson River. Thither the love-struck Major hastened. He says life's greatest thrill came when the Admiral's barge took him off to the flagship where he was ceremoniously piped over the rail. Formally, as one U. S. officer to another, he presented his compliments to the Admiral, requested his daughter's hand in marriage. After the War they...
Under present conditions with so much stress on education, it is a healthy sign that experimental work in that field is receiving recognition. The training of the mind is an essential element in modern life, and attention must not be given exclusively to the actual mechanics of educating. The problems of how and why are every bit as important and it is the answer to the questions that arise in the latter connection with which the School of Education is concerned. Any assistance that is given to help to accomplish this aim is a well directed and intelligent...