Word: rying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...referring to the familiar "For God, for Country and for Yale" which must be sung: "For God, for Ca-a-unt-ry and for Yale"--which is loathsome but which can be made very unannoying and definite not by changing the words at all but by repeating two of them, thus: "For God for God, for Country and for Yale." Furthermore, this not only adds smoothness and decision but puts the greatest emphasis where emphasis is lacking. In our undergraduate course in English at Yale, we were told that the order For God, For Country and for Yale...
...this ribald and entertaining, albeit disrespectful opus Ernest Boyd sets out to fire the whiskers of several highly respected lit'ry gents of the classic English school, and in spite of the fact that a good deal of what he says is patently untrue, or at least misleading, it must be admitted that his theses are never anything but plausible. The best traditions of English letters seem to present to him an endless and enchanting vista of abstract crockery to be broken with loud pagan snorts and bellows, and while he not infrequently builds an elaborate argument of disproof where...
...following article was written to the Crimson ry J. R. Hamlen 04, Chair man of the Harvard Fund Council, who has just returned from the district afflicted by the Mississippi floods, wher he attended the Memphis Convention a Harvard Clubs. Mr. Hamlen travelle extensively through the inundated area after the convention...
Federal Advertising Agency, Manhattan, (best combiner of text and illustration) - Visit this Next Door Normandy! Bienvenue a Quebec-or Canadian Pacific Ry...
...Jersey, Inventor Thomas Alva Edison approached his 80th birthday (Feb. 11) ; in Bermuda, Dr. Francis Landey Pattton, 84, onetime (1888-1902) president of Princeton, celebrated his birthday; lectured to the local Rota,ry club. Dr. William Williams Keen, 90, of Philadelphia, also celebrated his birthday. John Davison Rockefeller,* 87, played golf in Florida with Soldier Adalbert Ames, 91, last Union Army gen eral. And in Detroit, Soldier Roland, 100, came forward. To memoralize the death of Empress Charlotte, he had put on all his medals, for once he had been a colonel of lancers under her hus band, Maximilian...