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...Ward was named president of the new corporation, it was evident that that famed 41-year-old baker was carrying out his long-rumored plan of merging the great bakeries of the country and controlling their factory brands of the national life-staff from sown seed to delivered loaf. U. S. housewives still bake 50% of the bread, cake and pastry that is eaten. Baker Ward would attend to much of the rest...
...beauty, or from butter-fingered Lily who couldn't say boo to a goose. But she scrimped and saved and cooked, gave up the lover who would have carried her off to South America, sent Victor to Harvard, petted him when he flunked out and came home to loaf, feet on fender, in wait for a suitable business position and in self-pitying anguish over the rebuff a New York bud had given his rustic advances. While the rest of the country freed the slaves, built fortunes, warred with Spain, the Campions were claimed by frustration, poverty and middle...
...idea of the 'gentleman's C', which has become a popular excuse for mediocrity, is a conventionality of thought which is turning Harvard from a College into a convenient place to loaf and be great. . . Extra-curriculum distinction claims the undergraduate attention...
...grind," be dropped from undergraduate vocabularies. Because he refuses to be conventional, the conscientious student is despised. The idea of the "gentleman's C," which has become a popular excuse for mediocrity, is a conventionality of thought which is turning Harvard from a College into a convenient place to loaf and be great. Fathers accept the grade without complaint; sons, long before they come to college, determine to work for nothing higher. Extra-curriculum distinction, with all its empty pride, false hopes, and insignificant rewards, claims the undergraduate's attention while his books remain closed on his desk. So restless...
...attending public theatricals) assembled with a score of guests. Howard Thurston arrived with a moving van full of paraphenalia. With ducks, geese, pigeons, rabbits he prestidigitated. Then he took the President's watch, a gift from the Massachusetts Legislature, smashed it with a hammer, called for a loaf of bread from the kitchen. It was brought. Mrs. Coolidge cut it; and who would believe it??the watch appeared within, quite whole...