Word: tiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life, as in his convictions, gave him strength to rise daily from his sick-bed to lecture throughout the last eight months, nor did he let his illness impair his amazing tolerance and accessibility. Now that death has swept away one of the strongest bulwarks against the rising tide of sentimentality, political immorality, literary quackery, and artistic affection, Harvard men can only hope that Professor Babbitt, through his books, may yet bring the world's creative effort into those fruitful channels pointed out by his philosophy...
...rising tide of Democracy was not unfelt at Harvard. In the first 100 years of Harvard eating, the student body was divided into tables of about ten or more men, seated according to social rank. When the first Harvard Hall burned in 1764 a larger room was procured in the present Harvard Hall, and the seating plan began to take on its present lack of class-consciousness...
...President Lewine was a happy man. Not only did last week's opening mark the completion of plans on which he and his friends have worked for years, but, more important, his Commodity Exchange, with its 1,031 members, was being auspiciously launched upon a rising tide of prices which promised to lead on to fortune. Seats on the Commodity Exchange, which for the merger of the old Rubber, Silk, Hides and Metals Exchanges, were valued at $900. have shot...
...Gray, distinguished botanist, the germ of summer education has spread from Harvard until today there are over 100,000 students in 356 colleges in the United States under instruction. Courses at Cambridge in biology, chemistry, and geology followed quickly in those days when Boston was floating on the flood-tide of a renaissance of intellectual interests, and the brilliant foreign professor Louis Agassiz intoxicated the sages of Concord with natural history. The gradual enlargement of these courses into a regular Summer School of Arts and Sciences and its subsequent growth was but the work of time...
...Varsity time trial was held at noontime today, when the pelting rain had provided ideal tide conditions. The beat was lifted to thirty-three for the last mile and was held there until the finish...