Word: various
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...title to his newest book of essays, Mr. McCord goes to the old philosopher of "The Crock of Gold," and chooses as a motto on his title page that worthy's recurrent pliant, "there are lumps in it." The lumps in this literary Stirabout are various and many...
...will this mean a Harvard type, for individuality is fostered, strengthened, and tested by the collegiate system, as our English universities have proven by long experience", adds Professor Sisson. But, as Professor, Richardson says in "Study of the Liberal College" (1924): "Of course there are great differences between the various colleges . . . Some of them, such as Balliol and New College, have set themselves toward a marked degree of scholastic excellence . . . It is very difficult for a college to change its status. In the first place it has acquired a constituency of a fairly definite type . . ." The Harvard plan, painstakingly whitewashed...
House comments upon various...
...Conn., and took another B. A. from Yale. Since then the bright facets of Professor Seymour's mind have received an exquisite polish in the process of acquiring numerous exalted degrees, teaching history at Yale, helping to make it at the Paris Peace Conference, and writing or "arranging" various books dealing with the more secret phases...
...first few strenuous years of the nations history brought forth many great men but Franklin is in many ways the most interesting of all. Washington still exists for most people as an idealized and almost superhuman character; Hamilton seems aristocratic and haughty and Jefferson is chiefly associated nowadays with various obscure principles dealing with "states rights". But what we know of Franklin from the homely wisdom of his Almanac; the curiosity that led him to make an experiment with lightning and kites that later electrocuted and imitator of it and the stories of his success at the French court crates...