Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...English without a knowledge of these two fundamental sources of purest English. In selecting these two works as textbooks, the Harvard Faculty intends that they be studied for the value that is in the language which the writers used rather than for the purpose of teaching religious belief or pure mental enjoyment...
...fact that Harvard should adopt such a measure appears strange to many of us undergraduates among whom the American language has become generally used. The prevalence of slang is so common to most of us that the speaker of pure English almost needs a code in order to carry on a conversation with...
...pounds, but every man on it is quick, quicker probably than the average Crimson forward. Healy, for instance tips the scales at a bare 169 pounds. But in last year's game he was the outstanding man on the Purple line, making up for his lack of poundage by pure fight...
Concerning the tendencies of modern poetry. Mr. Markham was optimistic. "The tendencies are all away form the pure fantastic and unreal in romanticism to what is vivid and vital in the common human life around us. The poets are taking deeper hold upon reality. Old romantic poets went to the distant and dead to find their strange beauty, but the new find a strange beauty and a tragic terror in the familiar lives of men and women in our workaday world. This might be called strong tendencies towards the democratic in literature. So strong is this tendency that I doubt...
...state of stagnation, so that the interest cannot be collected. Appeals for economy in all lines have been issued. Congress is at last awake and we are to have a budget system. This is not the time to increase the bonded indebtedness of the National Government. Pure justice can be better satisfied by the application of funds to the the alleviation of the lot of the many almost forgotten medical cases...