Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...college wants Duke. The question of who is right makes no difference, but the question of whose desire shall be followed makes a good deal of difference. Football may still be free from "civic responsibility." It all started between Princeton and Rutgers as a friendly rivalry. It was thought that it would be nice for colleges to play each other. It was nice, and still can be today, but just what John Q. Public, his wife, and his kids want should be gently ignored. It would be pleasant to keep college football, amateur or semi...
...then, there he was on the platform, that kindly smile, a twinkle in his eyes. The Vagabond thought of that wise saying--it's credited to Mrs. Hocking--that when Mr. Frost lectures, he thinks out loud, and his thoughts are worth listening to. He was thinking out loud now, ideas on college, "the four years of shelter from a hard world, the four years of beautiful leisure." The Vagabond remembered that it had been Mr. Frost who had told him that of all the things in college, only two were worthwhile for a person of artistic leanings, "sports...
...thought that only...
...scholar again. "I've got one poem," Mr. Frost was saying, "that I want to publish by itself. It's very booky. It would only take about a page, and then I would have about 25 pages of notes." The Vagabond was not the only one who thought of "The Waste Land" as the room rippled with laughter. But he liked T. S. Eliot. And Mr. Frost was making...
...more poignant thought, the real meat of last week's meeting (although fulminations made most of the headlines), was contained in a report of A. B. A.'s economic policy commission, which includes such famed bankers as A. P. Giannini, Winthrop Aldrich and Leonard P. Ayres. Acknowledging that "this present business upturn clearly appears to mark the beginning of a new business cycle," the report offered a gloomy pronouncement that "banks in general may not derive profit from this business expansion, even if it continues with unabated vigor throughout next year. . . ." U. S. banking at present is like...