Word: poor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...feathered thrill of birds." Mr. La Farge's "To My Goddess" exhibits feeling for the music of verse and contains pretty details. Unhappily the reviewer's copy omits the last line of the second and last stanza, and reads,--"Then lovelier than the hermit-thrush's call, Than whip-poor-will's insistent threnody, Christopher La Farge '20" which, I am sure, was not the poet's intention...
Does anybody know what it is all about? Does anybody care? If I were to approach Mr. Lazarus, or Mr. Joslyn, or last but not least Mr. Tucker, and say to them: here is Harvard University, a poor sort of institution at best, but just now utterly ruined by the lamentable uncertainty as to the educational program which it is to adopt for the future; take it; take it as a gift, and do with it what you will, so long as you write no longer--would they then leap to the opportunity and reorganize us all, or would they...
...aviators have hitherto paid to it. But if considerations of military advantage should render it desirable to follow up the recent small attack on Cologne with larger and more destructive raids, and in one of these the cathedral at Cologne should be wrecked, its destruction would make but a poor exchange for the Cathedral of Rheims. And now there are well grounded fears for beautiful Amiens! What ghoulish satisfaction the Germans must have--even at the moment when the British and French are sparing their great temple at Cologne--in destroying the finest piece of Gothic church architecture in France...
Entirely apart from the needs of the Government, it is a wise thing for the individual to buy Liberty Bonds instead of things which he does not now need, however much he may desire them. In the first place, if one intends to buy a luxury, now is a poor time to buy it, because prices are inflated and one will not get very much for one's money. The same money, if one will save it, will buy more after the war is over and prices have returned to a normal level. A Liberty Bond is as good...
...dormitory relays were run off at 4 o'clock and resulted in a decided victory for Standish, with a Gore a rather weak second, and Smith a poor third...