Word: rarer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...native state is well known. It now includes a great admiration for Miss Cleghorn, although many of her opinions are far from my own. Here is a liberal, almost a radical mind, finely tempered by New England sanity and balance. It is a combination, rare in literature, perhaps rarer still in teaching. Her passion for humanity, tinged with mysticism, makes her verse memorable, and I imagine that as her work as a teacher develops, she will add not a few disciples to her already large list of friends...
Frank W. Mondell: "Charles Michelson*, Washington correspondent of The New York World, referred to me as ' former Senator Frank Mondell.' I have never been a Senator, but for 26 years I was Congressman from Wyoming - a rarer thing, for Wyoming has two Senators but only one Congressman...
Forty years ago, several Harvard graduates started "Life" with the quotation that man "hath but a short time to live and is full of misery"--and they set out to dissipate as much misery as possible. "Time" will solve a problem peculiarly modern, when spare moments are rarer than ever. It will give pre-digested news in a form readily available on the subway or motor bus, where the forty-page daily accomplishes little besides ratting and knocking off one's neighbor...
...fact that he had been in college for four years without ever having seen a football game-a "pride in ignorance" plainly inappropriate, and fortunately not prevalent among men who are interested in a "college education". "But certainly these who have never seen a football game are rarer than those who have never been to Appleton, and are regarded as more "queer...
...Treasure Room is on the first floor of the Library at the foot of the main staircase to the right. In this room are kept the rarer books belonging to the Library (except the Widener Collection), many books of interesting personal association, and the collection of manuscripts. The Farnsworth Room contains a miscellaneous collection of attractive books for general reading. It may be used as a reading room by all members of the University, but it is not to be used for study...