Word: myths
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...That the "rich man's college" myth, the theory that wealthy boys dominate the life of Harvard, is effectively dissipated, since about 60 per cent. of these college leaders, and among them some of the most successful and prominent earned at least part of their expenses, making an average of $900 per man, while six of them actually earned more than they spent...
...probably only a few have as yet decided to room in the Yard their Senior Year. However, with the rooms made thus still more attractive it is logical that most of the class will live there its Senior year, since the popularity of the Yard is no longer a myth. The committee has consulted most of the officers of all three classes, all of whom are enthusiastic over the plan...
Professor Altamira's subject does not indicate the scope of his address. He endeavored to show the general value of literature to the historian and took Spanish history as an example. There is little positively known of some of the greatest events in Spanish history; they are obscured in myth and legend. But that is not all. Having lost their orientalism, the Spanish people ask how they came to be what they are. Is there any truth in the general impression that they are a nation of individualists, free from the restraint of other than common law, with free institutions...