Word: things
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...clearly understood that we neither desire nor expect to vote for senators or members of the House of Representatives; they are the representatives of the people of Massachusetts. But the privilege of voting for the president is a thing so vital to all of us who are devoted to the higher interest of the nation and eager to play an honorable part in the great experiment of democratic government upon this continent that it appears more than probable that, with sufficient energy and able leadership, the legislature of Massachusetts will be prevailed upon to act favorably on a petition...
...army of young Americans will cast their first ballots at the polls in November. How will they vote? To a considerable extent they will hold the balance of power, and as they dictate so will the country go, for better or for worse. It is a mighty responsibility, this thing of determining the future history of the country, and those first voters, boys and girls, who don the habiliments of full-fledged citizenship when they take their first ballots in their hands and step into the voting booths owe in return for the new privilege that hence-forth...
Archaeology is the really romantic thing in this generation, now that war has been turned into a dismal science, and no, more strange countries--only wastes of Arctic snow--remain to be explored--The record of the latest discoveries of the Harvard Egyptian Expedition, under Dr. George A. Reisner, as related by him to an Associated Press correspondent at Cairo, is surely a story of romance. The expedition had gone far up the Nile, to Napata, in the province of Dongola, on that stretch of the great river where, after its plunge at the Mograt cataract, it turns southward...
...dump heap that they were put by the Egyptian reconstructors of the temple after a destruction of it subsequent to 600 B. C. The Egyptians of that period, regarding themselves as moderns of the moderns, and certainly the most up-to-date thing then existing, had no respect whatever for the monuments of the Ethiopian period. Old rubbish to the dump. Ten great kings, each perhaps in his own way as great as Ozymandias, king of kings, were "scrapped" relentlessly by those moderns of long ago--scrapped in contemptuous fragments. Nothing more forever of Tirhaka the magnificent, of Tanut-Amon...
...significant thing, no doubt, is the offer of this sort of academic reward by America's greatest University. It involves a far departure from John Harvard's ideal of college training and implies a suggestive concession to utilitarian ideas of education. It is the fatal first step? Will there yet be regular courses in plumbing at Harvard and post graduate instruction in gas-fitting? Will retired bathtub manufacturers endow professorships there and steel-makers and motor car manufacturers found technical schools and establish scholarships in their lines? There are more things in a modern college education than were once dreamed...