Word: self
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...coffee on Sunday mornings--and they slip by, unsung, into the tumbled yesterdays of 'a little while ago.' I was in tremendous luck to be able to 'graft' my way into this section on the eve of its first real action--and once the action got started it seemed self-perpetuating. I have been an 'extra-man'--so my chance to see things has been excellent. 'Seeing' balls one all up, too. Though in a way also it makes everything--that is, just living--seem simpler and untroubled by all the old petty details. It is torture...
...sudden crisis searches out both the brave and the cowardly. At such times the character of those caught in it becomes evident. The subway coward is the self-seeker under fire. Those who are brave in a panic are those who are gentle and considerate at other times. --Boston Globe...
These lectures will be given in Huntington Hall, 491 Boylston street, at 5 o'clock in the evening. Admission is free, but by ticket only. The tickets may be obtained on application to the curator of the Lowell Institute at Huntingon Hall by enclosing a stamped and self-addressed envelope for each ticket desired...
...classes of 1919 and 1920 are the only ones who could make up sevens. Accordingly, the meeting recommended that hockey for the students who are not experts should be played in the Leiter Cup series, as in former years. These series have been played every year by self-organized scrub teams, having such names as "Chuck-a-Pucks," "Hard-Boiled Eggs...
...soon as it germinates, Hodge steps in sight for the first time and everybody knows the solution. In bringing about a happy fourth act, he foils three members of the caste, restores ten of them to health, regenerates one and marries one--all in the same evening. And if self-assurance was sand, Hodge would be the Sahara desert...