Word: strangers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...riot and civil disturbance, to gunfire and cobblestone-pitching. President Sanchez Cerro is no stranger. Week before President Sanchez Cerro took the oath of office a General Pedro Pablo Martinez blustered into town after a flying trip from Santiago, Chile. He said that a long time ago President Sanchez Cerro had insulted him. He had come for satisfaction. Acquaintances of the principals persuaded the truculent warrior to observe the statute of duelling limitations, forget his grievance. He was packed off to Chile on the next boat...
...degree there is no desire to minimize the value of a classical background. On the contrary, the present tendency is too much to neglect the classics and to forget that they still have a real part to play in a balanced education. No man should be a stranger to the literature and the philosophy of Greece. Study of the ancient languages, nevertheless, should be optional rather than compulsory...
...Have a drink?" suggested the stranger...
...Radcliffe "yard," which has hitherto been open to the world on all sides, with only a gate here and there by which the stranger may know that he is entering Radcliffe, will be completely surrounded next fall by an iron grill fence, money for which the alumnae fund has already on hand...
...Chinese art. With Kiang Kang-hu he translated a Chinese anthology, Jade Mountain. He lives in Santa Fe, N. Mex.. in the midst of Chinese jade, Mexican scrapes, Navajo rugs. He likes to play the piano, laugh and sing. Other books: Young Harvard, Grenstone Poems, The Beloved Stranger, A Canticle of Pan, Caravan...