Word: tablets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...described by Mark; Twain. But foreign public opinion of this country depends on our representatives. An ambassador like the late Walter Hines Page is more valuable in promoting friendly relations than any number of treaties. The act of respect which the British people are paying him, by placing a tablet to his memory in Westminster, suggests how much the highest type of diplomacy can affect the good feelings of one nation toward another. The whole foreign service should be kept a the same level; no political favoritism should interfere with choosing the best-fitted man for any post...
...sense of the fitness of things that is to place one of these battered vehicles on exhibition in the Invalides, where are France's great military relies of the centuries. There its two cylinders will come to rest amid the armor of kings and banners of Napoleon. Upon a tablet will read the words of one of these chauffeurs spoken to Gallient on that memorable September 7, 1914: "One must do as one's comrades do: one must go where it is necessary." After all, neither Roland, nor Bayard, nor Henry of Navarre, nor Guynemer did more. New York Tribune...
...least that is the opinion suggested by a recent discovery. A tablet has been found at Nippur unmistakably antedating the Hebrew epic by ten centuries, and giving in surprisingly similar detail, even to names, the creation and fail of man. Supplemented by other records, a complete Sumerian legend can be constructed, which carries the history of Babylonia up to a flood strangely like that which bore Noah on his famous voyage. Thenceforward, the tale is different, and, as the critics would have said, the Hebrew plagiarism ceases...
...memorial tablet to Warren A. Looke, of the class of '69, former choir master at Appleton Chapel, will be unveiled and presented to the University by the Reverend F. G. Peabody '69 today at 4 o'clock at Appleton Chapel. The tablet will be accepted by President Lowell. Members of the music department and all undergraduates will be welcome...
...secure the ideas of an authority on any subject he may find interest, without paying for the course, without doing the outside work unless he chooses, and with the minimum time expenditure of two or three hours a week. It is an approcah to the education-in-tablet-form for which our intellect-chemists have long been searching. Certainly a cursory gllimpse of the subject is better than complete ignorance. But even in visiting there is a necessity for selection. Time and conflicting course often interfer, while in many cases a man may not care to cover an entire subject...