Word: liking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fact that men like Shelly or Tennyson ignored the theatre is an indication of the decline of the drama in that period, for the drama is the most intensely powerful medium of expression in existence...
...number, set out in charge of one guard. They were gone all night and had plenty of opportunity to escape, yet the next day, all returned. Afterward one of the party came to Mr. Osborne and said: "Ain't it too bad more of them aren't like you and me? If they was, this world would be an ideal place...
...considered one of the essential privileges of a college education to become intimately acquainted with the men of learning of the time, and the homes of the professors used to be thronged continuously with groups of students eager to discuss questions of all sorts. There existed, at places like Shady Hill, the home of Charles Eliot Norton, a stimulating atmosphere of intellectual intimacy and real friendship, approaching almost the informality of a Greek philosopher's "companions." Of late years, however, there has been a gradual drifting apart of professors and students, until now they hardly ever meet outside...
...collection taken up between the halves of the football game last Saturday amounted to $11,432.39 which far exceeds any previous sum collected at a like time and for such a purpose. Last year at the Harvard-Yale game when the enormous capacity of the Bowl made possible an attendance of over 70,000 people, the amount of the contribution was $7463.91, while at the Harvard-Princeton game, last season's big Stadium event, the sum was less than $4,000. A week ago at New Haven between the halves of the Yale-Princeton game about $5,276.80 was given...
...writer of the account of the Brown-Harvard game, in today's issue of the CRIMSON, "crows like a well-bred cock" over the fact that the score of the game silences "those Brown men who have so consistently contended that Harvard was doing wrong in keeping the best Crimson players out of the game." It is quite conceivable that the score does not give an accurate idea of the relative merit of the two teams, but that is a futile argument. One admits with good grace that the quietus was put on effectively. It is, however, unfortunate that from...