Word: owned
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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"Many and diverse were the hopes and expectations we had formed for them, but every one of these has been surpassed by the event. They have all been found capable of making the greatest denial of self that men can make; they paid away their own life that the life...
At bottom the only ground for mutual understanding must be intellectual; and to the failure to appreciate this fact must be attributed the slow growth of Pan-Americanism in the wider sense. Most Americans have never even considered the possibility of the existence of large and influential universities in the...
"Dickens sent Mr. Fields a bit of the 'Uncommercial Traveller,' selected, it is likely enough, by that inveterate joker, because it revealed his method of literary composition when he was having the greatest difficulty in phrasing the narrative to suit him. From Whittier came the manuscript of several poems, together...
Members of the Harvard Poetry Society will be guests of the Boston Authors' Club at a reception given in the club rooms in Trinity Court, Dartmouth street, Boston, this afternoon at 3 o'clock. O. Shepard 2G. and C. Wright Sr. will read selections from their own works.
"A cruel and unusual punishment has been meted out to the student mind at Bowdoin, New York University, and a Middle Western state university. . . . Elementary questions about the war, such as the location of Gallipoli and Saloniki, the identity of Venizelos, Viviani, Poincare, . . . were presented to certain college classes, with...