Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their own, Boston and New York, while the Harvard Club of Chicago shares a club with Yale and Princeton. The rest of the Clubs have annual meetings, and most of them much more frequent meetings--either monthly or at weekly Saturday luncheons during the winter. It is a safe thing to say that practically every Harvard Club throughout the world holds a tense meeting at the end of the telegraph wire, cable, or radio the night of the Harvard-Yale football game...
...grouped according to the years in which they were built. For the rest, it is the essential Album, the record of a Harvard generation, of which the Senior alone has the true appreciation. There are minor defects, but not to be quibbled over. And if there is one thing on which the Committee is to be especially congratulated it is the fact that the 1925 Album is dedicated to Dean Briggs, who will retire at the end of this academic year; Dean Briggs, "whose friendship, sympathy, and understanding have inspired twelve College generations and whose ideals will be tradition...
This is all very disconcerting and "rite trewe" men cannot but view with alarm this tendency to revolt on the part of the younger generation. Why would it not be a excellent thing for both Harvard and Princeton to trade Freshmen for a while for the good of their souls." No, that wouldn't do, for when it came time to trade back the Princeton freshmen wounldn't go home...
...present time," declares Dr. Smith, "we can find somewhere on the earth all the conditions in sociology, government, and religion which have been since man began his struggle for existence. The most broadening thing a man can do, and the most helpful in teaching anyone to push ahead on his own evolutionary journey, is to see actually the steps which humans have taken in attaining their present condition...
...whole thing is a joke," said Mr. Wheeler, when he got back to Buffalo; and he went on to state that although he saw no one "staggering drunk", several "were a little wobbly." As if this slur on the quality of Ontario's four per cent beer were not enough, he even characterized it as "slops...