Word: reflecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard 1922 football docket were concluded yesterday with a parade that even surpassed the "record-breaker" mass meeting. Never have more Harvard men marched to Soldiers Field to cheer a football team in its last practice. The briefs, "We are going to win" and "We'll beat Yale" reflect unmistakably the attitude in Cambridge. And every Harvard man who is going to witness the trial tomorrow will support the team with the same conviction...
...from "The Coventry Cycle". These two plays will be supplemented by several scenes from "The Salutation and Conception" from "The Hegge Cycle". All three of these primitive beginnings of the English drama,--dating as they do from a period long before Shakespeare was to give it its upward impetus,--reflect with striking vividness the curious mixture of simple piety and homely humor, of naivette and cunning that went to make up the interesting if illogical mind of the peasant of the time...
...whole affair would be amusing were one only to judge by the letter of the criticism employed by those who would change Boston's school books. A far graver side of this concerted agitation is seen when we reflect that if Messrs. McSweeney, O'Connor, Prout, Walsh and Watson are to have their way, there is nothing to prevent one good textbook after another being tossed out of the Boston schools on the ground that their unhappy writers have not said that perfection was copyrighted in the thirteen States and more especially Massachusetts. Mr. O'Connor is reported...
...fail to find accounts of terrible accidents, atrocious crimes, financial failures, or scandalous wrong-doing, throw them aside in regret that there is no news. They find no satisfaction in the realization that the world and society are functioning normally. It is the duty of trained minds to reflect. These who have had the opportunity to study history should have a true perspective and a sense of proportion. They should examine the substance rather than the shadow. They should be as ready to commend as to denounce...
Many of the fancied wrongs of our times will disappear when educated men reflect and dwell upon the blessings which are theirs, when they insist upon temperate speech, when they are concerned more with performance than promise, when they realize that saying a thing does not make it so, when they are willing to grant to others the same integrity of motive which they ascribe to themselves, and when rejoicing in all that is true and good it is their burning purpose...