Word: marked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sermon was based on the scene recorded in the Gospel of Mark wherein Jesus rebukes the teasing scribes by bidding them simply to "love the Lord thy God with all thy heart...
...drove automobiles in a general northerly direction. A few of the more intelligent paid ten cents and studied on the benches in the subway. Some looked longingly at the Charles, but realized that they had no place in which to take the necessary cleansing shower afterward. Everyone agreed, in Mark Twain's phrase, that something ought to be done about the weather, but no two opinions coincided...
...Races Mark Climax of Season...
...truly are at Cambridge--seem almost too trivial to mention. But they are significant in that they indicate a willingness on the part of students at Harvard University to model their manners and customs after preparatory schools and small-town colleges. Harvard's much-touted "individuality" has left its mark on students for nearly three centuries. But if it is now to yield so readily to the onslaughts of provincial collegians, the Student Council might just as well declare it at an end, rechristen the Yard, the Campus, and make the Freshmen start wearing skull caps...
...however, was obdurate, and our ways parted. While I fought my way, inch by inch, through the Five-Foot Shelf, Tom spent his evenings improving himself by the I. C. S. method. By the time I reached the foot mark, Tom's salary had been raised. Three inches more, and it was doubled. Three inches more, and Tom was assistant to the manager of his department. My salary had stood still, but I was not downcast; for I had acquired nearly one-third of a liberal education. How little I realized what lay ahead . . . years of disappointments and failures...