Word: lives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard, no matter the size of the library or the splendor of the laboratory facilities, the University has got to pass on to the students a share of its reservoir of learning, if it claims to train young men to assume their places in the society in which we live...
...days ago Harvard added to its illustrious faculty Henrich Bruning, former Chancellor of Germany, whose liberal ideas have forced him to live elsewhere than in Berlin...
...children are less positive. George is trying to put a daughter through college. Cora's husband is poor. Nellie's husband's business is bad. Robert has all he can do to look after himself. The plan they finally work out is for Lucy to live with George while Barkley goes to stay with Cora...
...middle-class parents. His mother and father were always quarreling, separating, making up; little Harold was an agonized and helpless onlooker. He was a sturdy child but extremely sensitive. When he was nine his parents parted; his mother went to a sanatorium and Harold was sent to Cleveland to live with his grandmother. Passionately interested in poetry and not much interested in school, he made few friends there; but he landed his first poem (in a Greenwich Village magazine) when he was 16. When his mother filed petition for divorce Harold dropped out of school, was put on an allowance...
Crane's dilemma was to earn enough money to live on and write poetry at the same time. For a while he thought he had solved it, when he made a success as an advertising copy writer. But the better he became as copy writer the less time he had for poetry. Finally he chucked his job, depended thereafter on friends and windfalls. Banker Otto Kahn, when Crane appealed to him, gave him $1,000; later another $1,500. Crane's family and friends. and very rarely a check from an editor, supplied the rest of his income...