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Materially speaking, his book which has won the recognition of the Book of the Month Club, is twenty-five pages short of the famous four hundred pages, the commonly accepted threshold beyond which boredom may set in on the average reader...

Author: By H. M. R. jr., | Title: Epic Breadth and Grandure | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...must be accepted as such by all who aspire to complete identity with the college community. But even though the majority may accept them without further inquiry and all must accept them somehow or other, there are bound to be a few restless spirits among those crossing the threshold of the New Lecture Hall this afternoon who would like to know how the language requirements reached their present form and what purpose they serve...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | 9/22/1928 | See Source »

...Pardon my rough and tumble entrance to your party. But a brick through the window arouses quicker interest than a dollar's worth of pansies laid lovingly on the threshold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Misfit Cornell | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

...Manhattan, Sarah Lutkin came home to the apartment where she lived with her husband and two terriers. When she knocked, no one answered, no small dog ran barking and sniffing to the threshold. When she forced an entrance, she found Aaron Lutkin dead, asphyxiated by the gas which he had purposely turned on. Beside him lay the terriers, Jennie and Pete, dead also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Putting on the Dog | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...member of the University who has climbed the stairs of the south entry of Hollis Hall, crossed the threshold of Professor Charles Townsend Copeland's room and stood in the soft light of the sanctuary under the intense scrutiny of its little occupant will ever deny that he has penetrated to the heart of Harvard. There, as in a shrine, for many years the essence of the tradition, the spirit of the fame, the glory of the name of "Fair Harvard" has been accumulating about a man who has always stood for what the University holds most dear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHARLES TOWNSEND COPELAND | 1/21/1928 | See Source »

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