Word: mans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...navigator Grieve, the daring pair who tried to be the first to cross the Atlantic by airplane, are safe again on English soil and were royally feted on their arrival last night in London cannot fail to appeal to the American imagination as much as to the British. A man who, unlike our more cautious United States Navy filers, "took all the chances" in a daredevil attempt to do what many air-men considered next to impossible, impressed American and British sportsmanship to the same high degree. From the moment of Hawker's sensational get-away, when he dropped with...
...June number of the Harvard Magazine is crammed with stories: John Gallishaw contributes an amusing anecdote of feigned insanity, miss mason shows how an imitation of filial piety may be employed to extract money from innocent Westerners, M. A. Kister converts an atheist into a believer and man of power by means of a railway accident. So far there is nothing beyond the usual legerdemain of the short story; but Robert H. Chambers has achieved a more difficult feat. His "Nigger of No Account" is well no the way which leads to literature, because the author has sympathized with...
...with good teaching could learn enough Latin in six months to get into an American college", says Mr. Chapman, "and just this amount, this little smattering of latin, is enough to make the whole difference in any man's outlook upon civilization. This bonus bona, bonum' makes French and Spanish and Italian easy to him. It puts him at home in half the words of the English language. Almost everything an educated man has to do with is tinged with 'bonus, bona, bonum...
...business career. Here one can make a success in any number of ways, in athletics, in studies, socially, economically, even morally. But the whole course of four years is-nothing but one big competition, no matter in what field of distinction one is interested. Even the man who does nothing at all, must do that better than the majority in order to receive recognition. Harvard is no place for the mediocre man who hangs back. He must make his way in his own fashion, just the same as he would if he were fighting the world. The men who have...
...been decided how many facts concerning the military career of the man should be included. The Roll of Honor in Widener Library gives only the circumstances and date of the death, while many people believe that the whole military history of the deceased man should be printed. Others have suggested that a photograph of the former occupant of the room would also be appropriate. It is understood that these names will be posted only in the dormitories which belong to the University...