Word: remains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...goddess of Justice to get rid of two Italians. Bombs were tossed at U. S. embassies with a casual malice. One autumn day in Paris in 1921, Ambassador Herrick's valet opened the morning's mail. "Bang!" went a nefarious machine. He was wounded. Many a man- Remain Rolland, Fritz Kreisler, Professor Einstein, Count von Bernstorff, H. L. Mencken, Eugene V. Debs-demanded a new trial for the fish peddler and the factory worker...
...that frequent the Gulf of Mexico region dread these annual hurricanes. Their source is usually in the Caribbean, where an initial whirling motion is caused by the expansion of moist air over tropical waters. They then generally pursue a northern course gradually increasing in intensity so long as they remain over water. Curiously, due to lower barometric pressure on the southernmost side, the southern semicircle of these hurricanes is comparatively harmless. Mariners refer to the northern half as "the dangerous semi-circle," and the southern half as the "navigable semi-circle." They can usually rely upon "riding out" the "navigable...
...real teachers. One can know multiple roots and have no sense of pedagogy. One can be sure of himself in the oral quizz for a doctorate and lack the vital spark which makes for communication of ideas. Yet some can play through the grind of procuring a doctorate and remain sane, interesting. Not even three years, when they should be broadening their minds, spent in fitting an esotericism in scholarship to their mental decorations can completely dull these men. Furthermore, they like university life. It means the companionship of cultivated minds. It means refuge from the mechanical efficiency...
...agreement shall thereafter remain posted in some conspicuous place in each club house...
Thus it is evident that freedom implies more than the destruction of obstacles in the way of Truth. It implies responsibility. Nor have Harvard men at any time foresworn responsibility. Some words have less illumined connotations than others. Responsibility to many must remain a gray word. Cambridge is a gray place. New England to the Puritan eye which first sighted the rocks of an uncongenial coastline from the small but purposive "Mayflower" was a gray land. The Puritan mind was a gray mind. But Harvard College owes its existence to that gray land, to that gray mind...