Word: plant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Houghton surprised them all by refusing to "dig up" again the hardy plant of Anglo-American friendship which would flourish if it "be spared the scorching winds of after-dinner oratory. . . . You will not expect me to refer to 'hands across the sea,' " or even to "the language of Shakespeare, which neither of us uses...
...baseball cage, a new boat house, a swimming pool, new squash courts, a skating rink, a golf course and a polo field, are all suggested by the committee as necessary additions to the University athletic plant. In the beginning of the report the Committee expresses its complete approval of the present attention paid by the University to athletics, and expresses sympathy with the statement of Professor Mendell of Yale that "athletics make education safe for the Yale undergraduates...
...obvious that a plant to afford additional facilities for indoor exercise and a swimming pool are highly desirable, with the least possible delay. The construction on a swimming pool on a site already selected is now under serious consideration...
...After stating that the Uniform Stock Transfer Act was "perhaps still excusable," Mr. Hemphill added: "But then came the Uniform Partnership, Acknowledgments, Aeronautics, Desertion and Non-Support Acts -and then a real fever, a mad desire to make everything uniform.* There followed a wholesale production of nonsense, and the plant is still in 100% operation. . . . Mr. Madison's ideas of the rights of the States are still worth fighting for; it is not yet futile to contend against Federal larceny by constitutional amendment, and it is still worth while to give battle against the half-brother of Federal larceny...
...take away incentive and make slaves of the minds it seeks to liberate. So it seems to be among these young men. They are permitted to think with unbridled license of everything; so they think of nothing. Their much vaunted liberties have acted like the juice of the poppy plant, and put, them to sleep. An opinion prevails among many of the Satellites that the man who thinks is a depraved animal. Thus, shunning depravity, they fall blindly into it. Superficial cleverness passes current for wisdom. A spark is mistaken for true fire. They babble of many things, but ponder...