Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bums-the men in the dark-the men in the storm-the men in the snow. Do you know of the white-draped cradle within the door of one of New York's great institutions where, every year for 60 years, poor mothers and rich, humble- and proud alike, have laid their unwanted children in the arms of charity? Have you heard of the tarnished fame of Hell's Kitchen as it used to be? Sailors Snug Harbor, where a thousand old seamen find refuge and a little security after many storms; the Bowery Mission; the cheap, grudgingly...
...hard to compete with the professional funny magazines, and win their greatest glory in being occasionally quoted for the kind of jests that suit the newspapers; and most of them bristle with aculeate personalities, funny only to those in the know. The Lampoon has reason to be proud of the ease, decency, and geniality with which it reflects the spirit of the College. To have these qualities without being obscure, clubby, or dull seems at any rate the particular distinction of this Christmas number...
Much of this is as it should be, for it is nothing else but that far-famed individualism of which Harvard is so justly proud. No Harvard man would accept with equanimity the dull uniformity characteristic of some educational institutions. But individualism has been carried too far and has become not the right to maintain one's own ideas and customs among many but the habit of remaining oblivious to most other points of view and contemptuous of those that are known. The lump has become too great for the leaven...
...Matin continued: "When one thinks that this happened in a Ministry of which France is justly proud and at the head of which is a man of great intelligence and sense of justice, one wonders what happens in other Ministries. Above the imbecility of rules, should not there be common sense and pity...
...ledger. The result is not favorable and it will be well for the Student Council, on whose shoulders the responsibility for the present situation lies, to ponder the advisability of continuing a publication for which it must be accountable but of which it cannot always be entirely proud, and which requires a great deal of labor but is of little intrinsic value...