Word: lively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...earned $20 a week, married Gert. On his wedding night, he discovered that he had a weak heart and would soon die. The idea of suicide came to him like an inspiration or the thought of a journey. Gert did not wish to live any longer either; so Ed closed the window and opened...
Where does a college student live? Where should he cast his vote? The answers, of course, vary with the students. An orphan student might have no other legal domicile than his dormitory. Perhaps any student's dormitory rooms are or may be his voting residence, since at most institutions dormitory space is leased for a whole year and most election laws require only a few months' residence...
...Gibbs*-Doubleday Doran ($2.50). As usual, Author Gibbs is out to prove something-this time that a system of philosophy is bound to go on the rocks if it counts God out. There was no room for God in Hesketh's firm belief that some day man would live by Reason; there was no room for religion in the behaviorist upbringing he gave his carefree earthy children. But this omission does not necessarily account for the boy's morbid passion for his youthful stepmother (indeed every man in the book is in love with...
Just this, Harvard men all over the world are carrying on a tradition of helpfulness in the social problems of the communities they live in. We in Harvard now are letting this tradition go by the board. The facts are that men of College age are the ones on whom the responsibility for giving leadership to the boys of the community falls. It is this responsibility that Harvard undergraduates will not face...
More likely his wife whispered, and he made his mistake common to all young husbands, of believing her. Distance being the one requirement of all those who make their living by criticizing this busy republic, it is easy to see how one might fall into the error of looking for wisdom where they live, move and have their being...