Word: waiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Author Hamsun wrote the tale before he had reached the stature that put a Nobel Prize (1920) in his grasp for Growth of the Soil. He had, however, the same instinct for completeness, totality; the same slow scrutiny which, if you wait long enough, turns out to the vast drollery of a cosmic unbeliever...
...that can wait for the afternoon. In the morning, literature seems to hold most attractions. In Harvard 2 at 10 o'clock for example--perish the thought of arising before then--Professor Murdock will speak on American poetry of the period from 1870 to 1900, just when poets in this country were turning from Emerson and Longfellow and entering what for want of a better term can be called the modern phase. At the same hour incidently, Professor Baxter will speak on. "The United States and International Arbitration" a subject which has to say the least, great possibilities. This lecture...
Laborite Shouts: "Just you wait till the next general election...
...makes any secret about its strong defense. In 50 years of playing, with a game each year, the CRIMSON hurlers have allowed exactly 100 runs to their rivals. The Prince, too, has managed to limit its opponents strictly in the matter of runs. Both teams today will have to wait for a break, and when the break comes, the issue will probably be decided. This writer can't see how the game will be decided in less than 21 innings...
...management of doctorate study we shall have to work slowly toward the ideal of a more effective selection of candidates with genuinely constructive ability. The idea of professional training for education, on a graduate level and leading to distinctive degrees, is so new that we may have to wait some time before it will be welcomed by the profession as a whole. Meanwhile, if the number of our students is small, we shall at least have the advantage of setting high standards in a simple and well-organized program...