Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Chapeau d'un Orloger" is a humorous play, filled with ridiculous situations in which the butler, the chief actor, places himself. He has broken a very old and valuable clock and, fearing the irritable temper of his master. has bribed the chambermaid to say nothing about it, and also to secure a clockmaker to fix it. The clockmaker comes and examines the clock, but on his departure leaves his hat. The butler hides the hat, but it is found by another servant and brought, to the master, to whom the butler tells many lies to clear himself. He again hides...
...material or phrasing. John Albert Macy '99 contributes a story called "John Anderson, Deputy." It is vivid and real from beginning to end, vigorous, and thoroughly worth reading. "June", a poem by John Corbin '92, is perhaps a little uneven in quality, but it is high praise to say that in many lines it comes very close to the spirit of its title. "The Salvation Army", by Witter Bynner '02, is a half quizzical bit of verse, which very aptly phrases the attitude of those "who stand aside and say, 'O, they accomplish good.'" The number as a whole represents...
...differ with him in opinion, one found that the bond of affection grew steadily stronger. No subject that involved the sons of men or their concerns was foreign to his interest; if there was one he had not thought about, he was ready to think about it, and to say what he thought. He was willing to put himself in the other man's place; and all he undertook he performed with zeal. In his office, his class-room, and his home he was the soul of hospitality. Only the hearts of the many he has encouraged can tell...
...good fortune to live until the purposes he had labored for through many years had been accomplished or were in good promise of rapid fulfilment; and although he did not see the full fruition of his work, the time had come when he could say that his great task for Harvard was practically done: the development of what he has accomplished can now be safely left to other hands. The place that he leaves empty in the hearts of his friends no one can fill. B. S. HURLBUT...
...great heart; a scientific humanitarian, and shall we not say...