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...social question: "What a proud vaunt it will be for the American people, by nature inclined to grandiose undertakings and to liberality, if they untie the knotty and difficult social question by following the sure paths illuminated by the light of the Gospel and thus lay the basis for a happier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Proud Vaunt | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...longer need the followers of the Green bow their heads in shame when the Harvard band marches onto the field with one member banging melodically on his lyre-shaped instrument. No longer can Yale vaunt its silver-toned hope in front of the Hanoverian stands as they bend their heads in shame...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARTMOUTH ACQUIRES NEW GLOCKENSPIEL FOR CROWDS | 10/8/1936 | See Source »

These men are coming from the ends of the earth to spend some days in Cambridge in round table conferences with scores of younger scholars in attendance. Display is not the one purpose in view, although Harvard has full right to vaunt itself at such an anniversary as this will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 5/29/1936 | See Source »

...Robert Fallon '33, in the freestyle events; Edward Stowell '34 in the backstroke; and Victor Leventritt '34 in the breastwork should provide an exacting test for the varsity; and in Matthew Chrostowski and John Higgins, National record holders in the sprints and breastwork respectively, the Boys' Club can vaunt itself of two prominent candidates for next year's Olympics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/22/1935 | See Source »

...situation at present not only encourages but fairly drives the first-year men to take all the cuts possible. The droning voice of the lecturers, inaudible at the back of the room, is the best selling point that the Saturday Evening Post and Ballyhoo can vaunt. The amount of actual information dispensed is quite as adequately covered in the syllabus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AGONIZING INOCULATION | 11/30/1934 | See Source »

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