Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gifted with imaginative powers may write an examination which compares very favorably with that of a man who has done his work with regularity and precision. Both receive the same grade. That grade influences the mid-year or final mark in varying degrees but it is safe to say that seldom is it quite ignored. Thus one who has received his start by a streak of luck, luck which rarely comes to pass in the examinations held at later periods of the college year, is saved in the end not by the pace which he has maintained...
Opposing arguers may say that such a situation is feasible in any examination and that fate plays as large a part in Divisional and other important inquisitions as in the November minor agonies. If so, and there is a great deal of cause to believe that such is not the case and that it is in the present sieges that the majority of blunders arise, there is no adequate reason for continuing the opportunities for error. Few men "find themselves" in the November hours--one presumes that that is the ultimate cause for their existence--and many are the souls...
...There is not one here that I shall not always bear in my heart with affection and loyal gratitude. I am not worthy of all the good things that have been said about me, and I am not worthy of this gift-this timely gift, I might say, It is timely because my old Ingersoll gave out last summer and I had to borrow a watch from my son. I'll never forget this night...
...Traffic in Opium, on the Suppression of the Traffic in Women and Children, on the International Regime of Railways, and on the Supervision of the International Trade in Arms have been signed or ratified by a majority of the countries of the world. It is safe to say that all the heralded accomplishment of the Hague Conference did not compare with the sum of these benefits...
...recent years at least, nothing has given various members of society more pleasure than to dilate upon the species of Homo sapiens known as that "Harvard man." Not that the judgment of these--shall we say scientists--has not always been very exact. Indeed according to many accounts the Harvard man is chiefly famous for three things--his unfortunate choice in his tailor, the "you can always tell a Harvard man but you can't tell him much" joke and his indifference...