Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This group of articles written by men who are eminently well qualified to speak on Harvard, either past or present, contains many entertaining stories, much solid history, and certain intangible traditions which have become the most lasting part of what the name Harvard signifies. All of this varied material--tales of the nefarious activities of the Med. Fac. society and the great Commons rebellions as well as Dean Briggs' interpretation of the part of the individual in Harvard life--is just as essential to a full understanding of the Harvard of today as of the Harvard of a century past...
...through correspondence and very occasional personal meetings. In this case our relations are such that I would not hesitate for one moment to write to him, nor would he have the least objection to my doing so, in the interest of the Fund, frankly stating that I missed his name and that it ought to be there...
Joseph Jefferson. Remembered by the last generation of theatre addicts, he made famous the role of Rip Van Winkle, which he acted for 40 years in the U. S., Australia, England. He had a son whose name is Thomas Jefferson...
Broken in spirit and body, Michel became at last "liberé" (fantastic name for those wretches who survive imprisonment, but, exiled for years to come, must report periodically to the Guiana authorities). Meanwhile there was the listless scramble for barest necessities of existence. Few as these were after prison fare, the possibilities of work were fewer still, since employers preferred gangs of supervised prisoners available at minimum wage. Michel, marveled at his long-lost joie de vivre, remembered his ambitions, and the oath that never would he degenerate to a contemptible liberé, crouched on his empty barrow awaiting...
There were several Americans left now and one more Frenchwoman-Mlle. Manette Le Blan. Miss Collett got to the fourth round where she played a tired little woman by the name of Wragg who came out on the first tee wearing hornrimmed spectacles, a leather jacket with a sweater under it, woolen stockings, thick shoes, and woolen gloves. Miss Collett, always natty, had on a thin blue raincoat. Warm and ugly, Miss Wragg kept her ball in the middle of the course. Miss Collett stopped before each shot to warm her fingers with her breath. "How do you feel?" asked...