Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...snake dance of the Zunis. Modern plumbing an hygienic living conditions, the goal of the Red Cross, cannot help breeding a sense of unreality when the snake dance is performed. The Indian civilization, such as it was must be supplanted entirely or not at all. The mind cannot retain the customs and religion of the past when the body is living so ardently in the present. The Indian himself is an anachronism in the twentieth century, and he must either adopt the habits and customs of the times or suffer extinction...
Captain S.B. Kelly '25 and Robert Winthrop '26 at stroke are the two men who retain their positions. Of the remainder of Crew X as it now rows, G.R. Johnson '25 and C.F. Darlington '26 have been shifted within the boat, whereas J.P. Hubbard '26. Kent Leavitt '26, Geoffrey Platt '27, and R.W. Ladd '27 have been promoted from the second shell...
Because of the strong anti-clerical feeling of his followers and his dependence on them to retain his Premiership, Herriot must of necessity oppose the Church. Ever since the Concordat of Napoleon with the Vatican, which established its position in France, the Catholic Church has been on the side of the Rovalists, and therefore directly opposed to republican principles. Furthermore the breaking of the Concordat in 1904 and Poincare's attempt to re-establish it in 1923 have aggravated a tense situation...
...handicap under which Harvard is placed. American preparation is adapted by it to English educational theories. Oxford goes to the extreme of casting its men adrift in the libraries of England with only a tutor to guide their footsteps. Harvard has borrowed the tutor, but finds it necessary to retain course instruction to meet the needs of the average preparatory and high school graduate. If Mr. Darrow but knows it, Harvard is doing all that can be done in America to -encourage careful and scholarly browsings through the mysteries of Widener...
...appearance, the Marshal is slight, supple, short with the bandied legs of a cavalryman. His blue eyes, luminous, still retain much of their flash and his mental faculties are alert. He is difficult to converse with, being by nature taciturn, a strange virtue in a Gascon; but when he has a subject in hand to discuss, he begins willingly and almost invariably prefaces his remarks with "Let's get down to business." His aunt says of him: "I always wait until Ferdinand has chewed his third cigar before I look for him to come out of his thoughts...