Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appeared in a kind of maze. He signed important papers without reading them, and while refusing to see the Confederate Commissioners, suffered them to tarry in Washington, where they were fed with all sorts of promises by Seward, his Secretary of State. What does James Schouler, a friendly historian say? It is that Lincoln's behavior through the month of March, 1861 was as "though he had no policy and was waiting for his Cabinet to form one for him." And yet this month was the crucial period of his administration, for the issue of peace...
...contact, with Harvard man and Harvard laden. Arrived in Cambridge they may feel slightly bewildered, sometimes lost. In an atmosphere essentially strange to their past experlonee. Acclimatization to Harvard life will inevitably come of itself, especially since Harvard demands no conformity to specific standards, but it is safe to say that numerous students go through their entire four years of college without penetrating beneath the surface of that great store of past, achievements, personalities, incidents, and ideas which make up the body of what may be called Harvard tradition...
There is no need to blame there papers unduly. Even the most honest of citizens is not tempted by having to leave alone the unguarded and unlocked wealth of, say, the Federal Treasury. Told that the University had news on Monday, it is not strange that Boston's energetic papers should make some effort to beat their rivals. Not only does the Bulletin not get its "even break," but the placid life of Boston journalism is destroyed. And more serious than this, the University, though not, of course, to blame for the questionable conduct of the Traveler, American, and Transcript...
...Chaume who won the tournament last year. They were the two most interesting personalities in the tournament and the people of England wanted to see them play. What was a little rain? It would be good for the greens, the cheery faces of the Britishers seemed to say. Mlle. Thion de la Chaume shivered, hooked her drives into the long tough grass, Miss Collett shivered, took a nine in one hole, but tied the match at the ninth and went...
...escape one such course. Whether they choose to meet these requirements through course credits or not, most students regard them as simply barriers in their college path to be surmounted by the easiest method possible. As few men consider them means toward linguistic attainment as actually learn one to say nothing of two language because of their imposition. A change to a requirement of only one language to be met through a thorough written and oral examination or by a satisfactory grade in a course as advanced as French 6 or German 2, would give the brilliant student something...