Word: oak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...morning last week, lessons were proceeding as usual at Oak Park (Ill.) High School, when a messenger from Principal M. R. McDaniel's office entered one of the classrooms and haled Student Sam Givens into the corridor. He was wanted at "the office." Having lately won a local oratorical contest, Sam flushed with pleasure, thinking to himself: "Ho, ho, this will be something that Mac [Principal McDaniel] wants to say to me about the national oratorical contest...
Worship Journeys. To "know something about the channels through which others express the longing of their souls in worship," Dr. Ernest Bourner Allen of the Pilgrim Congregational Church in Oak Park, III., has devoted recent Sundays to "Little Journeys in Worship," has presented to his truly tolerant congregation "A Morning of Russian Anthems," "Jewish Forms and Music," "The Episcopal Forms of Worship" and "A Jewish Passover Song...
...University of London has its business offices in South Kensington, a college in Bloomsbury, two colleges on the Strand. It is as if the University of Chicago were strewn about from Ravenswood to White City and out to Oak Park, or as if Columbia University were dissociated into Bronx, Battery and Brooklyn units...
Humility is good for the soul and there are few things that so inspire it as the examination of our ancestors. Big oaks from little acorns grow, and any vagabond who is at all addicted to sporting with words, whether he considers himself a literary oak or not, can do much worse than to hear Professor Tozzer talk about the acorns of our language. At 9 o'clock this morning, he will lecture in the Semitic Museum in Anthropology I on the origin of writing and the beginnings of our alphabet...
...jump from the acorns to a fairly sizeable oak tree at 10 o'clock, when Professor Hocking will introduce to Philosophy A in the New Lecture Hall the character of Bishop Berkeley, whom with the exception of Duns Scotis, Mr. Yeats considers to have been the only truly religious Irishman who ever lived. He was himself one of the great vagabonds of his century, largely because he hoped to make a fortune in the New World. If he had ever succeeded I probably would not be hearing about him this morning. Franz Liszt will follow at noon, in Music...