Word: pamphlet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little yellow pamphlet, but Harvard men saw red. The Next President of Harvard: A Prediction, said the title. The author was that suspicious creature, a pseudonymity; in this case, "Dolopathos," meaning "Suffering Slave," or as more cheerful souls who had forgotten their Greek translated, "Bad News." The publishers were S. Baldwin & Co. of Cambridge, a non-luminous fact. "Abbott Lawrence Lowell, President of Harvard," read the first sentence, "will be 70 years old on December 13 of this year." What axiom could be more harmless? "He has occupied his high office for 17 years, has accomplished many striking and notable...
Thus protected from such scalawaggishness, the prudent housekeeper studied another pamphlet issued, in this case, by Secretary Jardine himself. It gave exact definitions of various kinds of meats and meat products, among others...
...been announced by the Chairman of the Committee on Instruction that no further edition of the pamphlet containing the list of Courses of Instruction dated September 15, 1926, will be issued...
That being that, as the saying goes, one-feels justified in commending the Harvard Athletic Association in their enterprise this fall. The new pamphlet published by the Association is excellent. And their attitude on football, rowing and the increasing of facilities for exercise at Harvard must receive full support. Athletics, when understood as a part of the physical welfare of the college and as remote from any attempt at advertising the college or amusing the public, can never be refused the cooperative approval of the Crimson...
Marcus Antoninus "as good or better than Jesus." She corresponded with Rousseau, whom she deemed to have known few fine women. She read Toland, Tindal, Hume, Locke, Grey, Campion, Herrick, Pope and Shakespeare, among others, never without intelligent commentary. On a pamphlet by John Woolman, the Quaker, noted that he had "used B. Franklin and D. Hall of Philadelphia" as his printers. "A new book," she said, "is always the event of the week...