Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Several boarding houses in and around Harvard Square are looking for men to act as waiters, in return for which they will receive their meals and in some cases a small sum of money...
Although Uldine's vocation of bringing light and leisure to the worker has been crowned with success, four sessions of Sunday school represent the sum of her incursion into the subtleties of dogma. And like her Brooklyn prototype her educational progress has been but mediocre. But then, as Carlyle once remarked in a burst of etymological exaltation, the word "vates" once meant both "prophet" and "poet", and the ways of each are equally inscrutable to the average...
Economists have proven the iniquities of the laissez faire system by reference to former conditions in English factories and American railways but they forget to mention former marriage conditions in the Caucasus. To buy a wife was then a costly proposition, for besides paying a heavy sum to the bride's father, the groom was obliged to entertain the whole village lavishly on the day of his betrothal. To the poorer tribesman, therefore, stealing or kidnapping brides became almost obligatory, a practice which often led to blood feuds between the families of bride and kidnapper. So much for the evils...
...Harvard is very much in the same position as a new baby. It has sufficient ugliness to make honest friends of the parents casual in their praise; it is sufficiently naked to allow real inspection by the skeptic who rather doubts the worth of babies as items in the sum total of pragmatic profit; and it is enough of a power, for all babies are autocrats, to make the older brothers and sisters worry about future fatted calves...
Although a vocational school for hoboes would seem to be ideal, this new institution shuns such practicality to follow the tendencies of liberal education. Pubic speaking, visits to art galleries, musicales, all these and other cultural effects find place in the curriculum. In sum they represent an enrichment of each vagrant's life. After a winter spent in Chicago and enlivened by intellectual restlessness, the happy tramp heeds the call of the broad highway, his acquaintance with the humanities having given him that detached, impassive view of life, so idispensable to well-poised members of his profession...