Word: waits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taxes levied on the people. The finances of Canada and the United States are in such condition that a government development of power could not come for many years. As the private capital is ready to develop the power offered by the St. Lawrence, why should New England wait for it until the governments of the two countries are in a financial position to develop it? Developing this power will necessitate doing much of the work which must be done if the river is to be made navigable. Why, then, not go ahead with our utilization of the opportunities...
...Wait Whitman was a transcendentalist, a mystic, and a romanticist," said Professor Bliss Perry, in the seventh lecture of the series for the Radcliffe Endowment Fund, "A mystic," Professor Perry went on to say, "in that he thought the best way to understand the world was to observe it, not argue about it. He was a transcendentalist through his contact with Emerson, who was his inspiration. He came at the end of one phase of the so-called romantic period. Whitman was also the climax of the period of offensive American assertiveness...
Professor Bliss Parry will deliver the seventh of the series of lectures for the Radcliffe Endowment Fund at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon in Sanders Theatre His subject will be "Wait Whitman...
Professor Perry, who has been a teacher of English literature at the University since 1907, is the author of "Wait Whitman", published...
Anyone who has been summoned to the presence in University 4, whether officially or unofficially, has often been considerably inconvenienced by the delay and lack of system attendant upon the visitation. If the long line, waiting "to see the dean", were an exception happening only once or twice, a term, the inconvenience of the delay would make no real difference; but occurring as it does daily, the long wait is coming to be regarded as the rule. Anyone called to the office has reason to expect to sit in line from fifteen minutes to an hour and a half...