Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thereby doomed to failure as a President of the University of Michigan. One can indeed mix oil and water, the saying to the contrary notwithstanding, but one cannot mix a real university with a "Collection of Colleges." An endowed college or collection of colleges, is a far different thing than a State University which is part of a State System of Public Instruction...
Have been reading about the Byrd Expedition and the naming of different mountain peaks after great men; why not name a mountain, a bay or an inlet after the great dog Chinook. He did a great thing in a dog's way. Chinook was brave until the last, in soul and action, even to die alone...
Well, we're going to drag this thing out in the open...
...lingo of the steersman seasoned, perhaps, with a spicy bit of Billinsgate will comprise part of the academic career of Harvard coxswains during the next few weeks. Not that the coxes will commit to memory the right thing to say at the right time in the right place to the right people. They will rather be aided in acquiring such a fluent vocabulary that other crews will stop in amazement...
...down and talk this thing over. Call in the men from the Garden and the courts, from Hemenway and Soldiers Field. God knows they'll be glad enough to rest a moment! There they come, bandaged, on crutches, gashed and bruised...