Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course," he admitted, "a man must master the English language, and college offers him that and other opportunities. But the greatest possibilities are in men themselves. I myself was born poor, have been one of the people and know and love them and that I think is the reason for my success...
...CRIMSON has always advertised its competitions as the hardest form of extra-curricular activity available in the University. There are two very good reasons for this seemingly strange fact. In the first place it has always been the belief of CRIMSON editors that difficult forms of activity are eminently worth while in themselves, and that a college like Harvard will always contain a num- ber of men of a sufficiently adventurous spirts and virgorous nature to respond to the call of the admittedly difficult. The CRIMSON does not attempt to conceal the nature of its competitions because it wants only...
Bargains in Floor Coverings" Under the large white elephant was a paragraph: "The Reason: A white elephant is an article that has been a slow seller. . . . They are 'White Elephants' to us but they are ex- traordinary bargains to you." Readers, thinking this a frank, logical and apt explanation of a clever advertisement, patronized the sale...
...secure in being able to turn to something wholesome like politics. But the new intelligence has all the while been eating into this happy vale of candidness, as the edge of a milltown eats into the virgin forest. Singularly untouched hitherto, and the more pathetic in downfall for that reason is the situation of Mayor Walker of New York...
...Bailey states that the reason for his withdrawal is not because of ill health, but because he is desirous of retiring from all active medical practice, and that he thinks it wise for Wadsworth House to have a young doctor who would be more suited to the arduous duties of Medical Adviser in the University after he leaves, and as yet has made no definite plans for any future work...