Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clicked, the onetime Crown Prince chatted amiably with reporters, who protested that they were being kept out of House Doom with such iron rigor that really it would be most difficult to write satisfactory stories. Taking the hint at once, "Wilhelm III" ran a rueful hand through his now pure white hair and promised to do what he could...
...expedition is to make a medical survey of the population of a section of that country. The region selected is about Chichen Itza where is situated a famous sacrificial well of the aborigines. There are some villages of mixed population in the neighborhood, and others of practically pure-blooded Maya Indians. Little is known of the diseases of these people, and it is hoped that this study may throw light upon the causes of the complete collapse of the Maya civilization which followed the Spanish conquest...
There is only one objection. The committee regrets changes in the Yard The policy of preserving architectural nightmares because of some sentimental tradition has developed in this country into pure fetishism. States, cities, and institutions alike meet it. If the beauty of buildings that could be designed to supplant Matthew, Weld, Boylston, Emerson, etc., is not sufficiently justification of the destruction of the monstrosities, why not have the Engineering School build the future Harvard? They might do a good job. If the Yard is to be kept in its primeval state, why not tear everything out except Holden, Harvard, Massachusetts...
Although many of its objections are undoubtedly valid, the Advocate in its current number has done little more on the whole than register thorough disapproval of the House Plan. Such a course two months ago was perhaps the only one possible. But the time for pure opposition is by now rather late. The Plan in some form or other will be adopted; about that there can be no doubt. It is now for those concerned about the future of Harvard rather to urge that the impending reorganization of the College be made to serve some positive educational aim, than unconditionally...
...London Daily News scooped, last week, the news that "the King's hair has turned pure white...