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...impressions of his school days are fresh in his mind, and if he has had an over-dose of the "drum-and-trumpet" brand of History or of the genealogical and chronological table variety. "History is just a chaos of inconsequential facts", he is likely to add, "not the thousandth part of which is worth remembering. History has no laws that can be deduced from this welter of facts and applied for practical purposes, unless it be for a few vague generalizations about as interesting as the statement that 'water runs down hill'. History has no lessons to teach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HISTORY CHARMS AND TEACHES SAYS LORD | 4/13/1923 | See Source »

...threatening danger, however, is not very great as far as Germany is concerned, as the depreciation of the value of the mark is no sign of her financial status. The mark is now worth one ten thousandth of its pre-war value, being sold in Berlin at the rate of 40,000 for a dollar. This sudden depreciation in value of the mark should cease to hold great fears for us. The mark has long been dead. We may therefore consider the cries of financial panic that come to us from the streets of Berlin, because of the depreciation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 2/3/1923 | See Source »

...sprit of "Indifference," as a characteristic of a certain university not a thousand miles from Boston, has lately been rebuked for the thousandth time--and also, as we notice with curious interest has been apologized for, one might almost say gloried in by Arthur Train '96, in the CRIMSON. That a man who has been a quarter of a century out of college, and consequently has had plenty of time to get, over his fine Class Day arrogance should be able at least to hint that there is a good element in the thing called "Harvard Indifference" is surely remarkable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 3/25/1921 | See Source »

Frank Bacon will, on New Year's Eve, have played his one thousandth performance in the phenomenal New York success, "Lightnin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/15/1920 | See Source »

...Advocate appears cheerily in its thousandth-or-so-number, with its scanty editorials, like the inadequate short skirts of a growing girl; its verses, its tales and its one page of "solid article." Here the reader catches a whiff of the Ladies' Home Journal; there he finds a hint for those short pages of the Century where the verse is tucked in; but few suggestions of the Advocate in the days when it was only the Harvard Advocate...

Author: By Albert BUSHNELL Hart ., | Title: Anniversary Advocate Admirable | 5/12/1916 | See Source »

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