Word: sands
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sixteen, nineteen, twenty-two, twenty-four hundred metres--mounting well at 1,180 turns. The earth seemed hidden under a fine web like the Lady of Shallot wove; soft purple in the west changing to shimmering white in the east. Under me on the left the Vosges, like rounded sand dunes cushioned up with velvety light and dark mosses (really forests). But to the south, standing firmly above the purple cloth like icebergs shone the Alps. My! they looked steep and jagged. The sharp blue shadows on their western slopes emphasized the effect. One mighty group standing aloof...
...these three premises Mr. Lazarus builds, like an edifice of straw or a house of sand, the conclusion that "Harvard University, judged by its majority, is exposing itself to the ridicule of America by taking a political stand based on puerile prejudice, mob imitation and unreasoning ignorance of economic history." These the premises! This the conclusion...
Here is the vital point of the whole subject--a point which has been buried in the sand of Union Committee Reports, etc. The ideal university is one where tuition is free, and where the only barrier to admission is an intellectual barrier. This ideal is not possible, perhaps, but a proximity to it is possible. Shall we make Harvard an oligarchy? Must we feed every promiscuous white elephant, which strays into our back Yard? Consider! L. P. MANSFIELD...
...else as diametrically opposed to skill with the quill. If the journalistic tendencies of the Illustrated prompt the display of well-known names, then let men who can write well interview the well-known names, but do not force the well-known names to do themselves an injustice by sand-bagging the President's English...
Most men are willing to help a good cause and when a general, official appeal for aid is made, as on the University tag day, they respond generously. But they cannot be expected to submit very cheerfully to a perpetual campaign of flagging, tagging and sand bagging by persistent females...