Word: shared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Another stab at the Great American Novel. Another history of the adventures and misadventures of an American family from 1832, when New York was in the grip of the black cholera, to times fairly contemporaneous. But the RoBards had even more than the usual fictional American family's share of trouble. Jealousy, murder, seductions, secret marriages?they took a fling at them all, but always managed to keep up appearances pretty well, on the whole. There is much interesting information on the growth and development of New York City and its water-system?a highly melodramatic plot to sugar-coat...
Apprentice jockeys fare worse. They are paid half the rate of their fully trained companions and their share of the first purse won is only one quarter...
Young Harvard, as reported in the CRIMSON, does not seem to share Miss Pankhurst's feeling that religion is the hope of the world. The CRIMSON opposes the building of a chapel as a war memorial on the ground that the college religious service no longer plays any part in the lives of a vast majority of students (which is true enough), nor is likely to become any more important in the future. It thinks a neglected chapel would be an ignominious tribute. If thinks a building which will be "a constant, active reminder of the ideal which it represents...
...another page are given some of the facts regarding election to Phi Beta Kappa. The honor society's method of selection is its own concern; yet it represents an interest in which all the students share, and undergraduates criticisms are perhaps worth considering. These criticisms are few: it is recognized that the only fair basis of choice for a scholarly society is scholarship, and that non-intellectual activities cannot be counted except when the scholastic records of two candidates are equal. But the complaint may reasonably be made that the society is too limited in its numbers...
...concluding, Professor Perry described a big line of telephone poles all of which but one were swept from their foundation and were supported only by the lines of sagging wires. The one sturdy pole was doing more than its share in keeping the lines in order. "Today", he concluded, "the wires of civilization are sagging down. The Lord grant that the United States be strong enough to carry more than its portion of the burdens of the world--only so can we complete the work of our gallant dead...