Word: pillars
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard Lampoon especially our praises are due, for reaching a pinnacle in its precarious and Alpine history, and thence demolishing at one crack that pillar of New England society, the Boston Transcript...
...congratulations cannot fail to extend, too, to the above-mentioned Pillar, which has taken its demolishment with such good grace. Has it already bounced back into place again, regardless of this Samsonian effort from across the Charles? Has it now become a chastened pillar, a sadder and wiser Transcript? We wonder. But, senatim, we congratulate our august contemporary on the magnificent burst of gratis advertising which it has received...
...first year of our war, to render praise, not only to the men who have gone, but to those institutions of the University which have made our record such a notable one. First and foremost of them all must stand Phillips Brooks House, our great pillar of social service, growing to meet new needs and constantly adding to the many activities of the past...
...which have mutually antagonistic objects in view. In its worst aspects it unquestionably extends to different forms of treason. But beyond a few leaders, it has no real organization of any kind. These men the government has been arresting. As a result the whole structure has crumbled like a pillar of sand, scattering the individual members over the country where they are still free, however, to do much as they have done in the past...
...literary and dramatic criticisms which close the number are of average quality. The reviewer of the "Pillar of Fire" would have been more interesting if he had been more specific as to the nature of Mr. Deming's charges against American universities. A detailed discussion of such a book is surely very much the business of the Advocate...