Word: shared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshmen today have little to complain of beside the stinking meals, the flint-like bread, the sour beer and cider of those days. Pie was introduced, after many riots, and we are told that, such was the durability of this dainty, thrifty students were wont to fasten their share to the bottom of the table with a fork (after forks had been introduced!) against leaner times...
...seems to me that for the young men of America who have escaped so easily the stern and cruel demands which the long war years and the cruel days that have followed have brought upon the students of Europe, there is a challenge to sacrifice and to share somewhat these terrific burdens. This is a duty which Harvard men must not continue to deny as she has in the past three years...
...work of good-will to relieve these people can have the most profound effect of any method that could be devised toward a settlement of international problems. We need a new spirit in international affairs, and with a new spurt, new things are possible. Harvard can have her share in bringing this about...
...worst when he loses his grip on the pinnacle and goes tumbling down the mountain side to land with a dull and prosy thud in the world of his creation. As soon as he ceases to be the hermit of the high place; as soon as he begins to share the whims and fancies of mortality; as soon as he begins to take sides and see his characters as mouthpieces of his merely temporal cogitations, he ceases to be the climbing demigod, becomes the plodding propagandist. J.A.T...
...also warned, and after the father is sacrificed in the interest of melodrama, slain in the most mysterious, unaccountable fashion, the effort to save the daughter becomes the mainspring. There is a good, rugged detective, who is not entirely without intelligence, like most stage detectives and a fair share of off-stage ones, and the millionaire's secretary, who assists in throwing the audience onto the wrong scent, helped out by a somewhat sinister-looking man servant...