Word: sheep
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposed Agricultural College might bring a rural touch and a sweet domesticity heretofore lacking in the Yard. Sheep might graze before Holworthy to keep the grass down and gambol with the students between classes. Nanny goats could glean a comfortable existence from the partly used but still wholesome cigarettes in front of Sever. There could be a dairy under University Hall, restoring as best it could the ancient beer garden. And of a spring evening, when the horses had been driven into Fogg Museum, and the geese safely crowded into Appleton, one might hear the lilting songs of plowboys coming...
...hereafter. The stature of adults was not much over five feet. Grains of corn, corncobs, squash seeds and beans indicated that the people had practiced dry farming at a time when the region was not as arid as it now is. There were also bones of deer, mountain sheep and rabbits, remains of fibre garments and garments of twisted leather, the inevitable dice, beads of turquoise and shell. The pottery, white or light-colored with black designs, was made without potters' wheels. There were chipped stone implements. The living chambers of the houses uncovered were small - only about...
...descriptions brought back by Marco Polo several centuries ago furnished the first account of that strange land. The animals sought are the Ovis Poli, or great sheep described by Polo, the yarklandstag, the ibex of Tian Shan, the goitered gazelle, the long-haired tiger, and the markhor (large goat...
...according to Holy Writ, more divine effort is expended upon one lost sheep and more joy is attendant upon its recovery than upon ninety and nine in the fold, just so does it become necessary for the organized Church Militant to spend more time and trouble upon one pronounced heretic than upon ninety and nine who may be heretics but who, for one reason or another, have never raised the issue...
Such a man may be as learned as Aristotle, or he may, as Mr. MacDonald said, have difficulty in signing his own name. He may be back in the country somewhere, singing the old folksongs, or talking about his sheep and his dogs, or quoting Burns. This is defining education not in terms of "counts" and "credit" courses, of "majors" and "minors," nor in professional or other vocational achievements, but in simple spiritual and intellectual values. . . . . New York Times