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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...members of the University who fully realize the extent of John Harvard's gifts to the University, and still fower probably who are acquainted with the character or the facts of the life of the man himself. Not many objects which were identified with John Harvard remain to us. Only one book of the library he gave to the College was saved from the fire, which razed Harvard Hall in 1764, and his house in Charles town was burned to the ground 11 years later
...indomitable spirit, the spirit that can turn a possible defeat into a victory. The man whose knocking knees are heard above his weak and faltering cheers has no place in the Harvard stands, and is unworthy of a Harvard victory. If the breaks of the game go against us, the team has the greater need of whole-hearted, enthusiastic support...
...have something for nothing in this world, and if we could, it wouldn't be worth much. Every day we pay some sort of coin for the things we want--and that without a murmur! If reading is one of the things we want most--well, just between us, don't you think the fellow who begs "No time for reading!" usually means "No inclination"--whether he knows that is what he means or not? Daily Illini
Spain has been misconceived by our ignorant tradition as much as any other country in the world. For us it has always been the land of riotous dance, gay color, tumultuous music. But in fact its hills are desolate, its color gray, the dress of its people largely black. That austerity that is only hinted at in the saddest parts of Brittany, is in Spain magnified to the dignity of a persistent vision, brooding in the colorless sky, dispelled, or rather, transformed, only for a moment in the heat of noon, intense, akin to the early Gothic. It is strain...
...Knock the L Out of Kelly" which Marguerite Farrell gets across; there is no other way to describe it. All in all, we are glad Lew Fields is in town, for if his co-workers are not up to snuff, he still is able to make us forget for a while that there are such things as wars and elections...