Word: spans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eight with the stroke reaching 40, took the lead, and then settled into an even 28 from which Amory never varied for the rest of the race. Crew B on the other hand changed its stroke constantly from 28 to 32. At Harvard Bridge the Freshmen shot under the span almost two lengths ahead, and with five minutes flat as their record for the distance, which is only slightly less than a mile. In the Lower Basin the 1924 crew gained another length when Coach Haines ordered the race off and sent the two boats to the banks...
Three hundred years ago the Pilgrim colonists first grounded their shallop upon the shores of Cape Cod, and established a new race and traditions which were destined to spread across continents and throughout nations. Three hundred years is but a short span of the world's life, yet human memory is sometimes shorter. How fitting is it, then, that on this day we should turn for a time from out shuttles, and books, and plowshares, to remember and do homage to the courage of the Pilgrims and to the ideals which led them forward...
...Good Book" limits man's alloted span to three score years and ten and says that though he attain to four score years they shall bring him nothing but sorrow and bitterness. Scientists, on the other hand, tell us that a man can only live long, if he "vegetates" in a quiet sheltered community. Occasionally, however, we find an individual, who refutes both doctrines, by leading a vigorous life and continuing his activity during a hale old age, to his own satisfaction, and to the benefit of the community...
William James advised keeping an "open mind" to the evidence of Spiritism. The proofs of a connection with the spirit world are, therefore, to be acclaimed or discounted by clear cold reason. But man's short span of life prevents his waiting till all the evidence is in. James also advocated the Will to Believe on the side of Faith. It is thus clear that he differentiated between Spiritism as a science and Faith as religion...