Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard is greedy, primary and secondary schools are miserly. They take from ten to twelve years in which to prepare men for elementary courses like French 2 or English A. Despite the youth of students of this age, it does seem that this sector of education might be responsible for a survey education of knowledge which would lay the basis for college work...
...hard to see just where cuts could be made in the preferred list. Eight tickets for each player on this year's Varsity does not seem a prodigal amount. Add to this consideration for the undergraduates, to whom the Yale game is the be-all and end-all of the football season, the coaches, band, and Varsity Club, and you are right back at the start...
This morning the Vagabond left his beloved Tower and his mind was filled with many a happy thought, for on this fair day nature with its blue heaven and its gentle breezes and its pure white clouds did seem to run together in sweet arabesques with the Vagabond's own world of happy thoughts and gentle feelings and whimsy moods...
...Vagabond thus walked and mused suddenly he was aware that he had reached. Dunster House, and it did seem very imposing and things seemed to buzz exceedingly. And again the Vagabond thought how warm it must be in winter and how cold the Tower. But the students who strolled indifferently about the court did seem most cold and concerned only with their gentlemanly ego. The Vagabond wondered whether he dare go in-for he's a sensitive soul and ill-versed in indifference. But he was asked to the exhibition of modern European art-and the Vagabond does love...
Byron: The Years of Fame ends with Byron's disgrace and exile, makes the poet seem almost a weary old man by that time. The Romantic Rebels, on the other hand, makes it clear that the experiences of Keats and Shelley were only a little less sensational, that most of the figures in the smoky dramas of genius were scarcely mature. Byron was 26 at the time of his disgrace. His sister was 33, Lady Caroline 31, his wife only 24. Shelley was 22 when he abandoned his 19-year-old bride, fled to France with two girls, aged...