Word: walden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...examinations to test reading knowledge in French and German, scheduled for 5 o'clock this afternoon by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, follow: Reading French Abbott-Kelley New Lecture Hall Kennard-Putnam Emerson D Quinton-Sullivan Emerson J Swain-Walden Emerson A Wale-Yoken Emerson F Reading German Babson-Macleod Harvard 5 Macomber-Ziseliuan Harvard...
Tomorrow at 5 o'clock: Reading German, Babson-Macleod, Harvard 5; Macomber-Ziselman, Harvard 6. Reading French, Abbott-Kelley, New Lecture-Hall; Kennard-Putman, Emerson D; Quinton-Sullivan, Emerson J; Swain-Walden, Emerson A; Wale-Yoken, Emerson...
...Thoreau's little hut by Walden Pond he treasured a single ornament- a fine specimen of granite, cut and polished by himself. To enjoy its delicate markings, Thoreau had to dust the stone every day. At length he decided that the time spent in polishing the little block was out of all proportion to its value; it was needlessly cluttering his life. So one day pitched it into the middle of the pond...
...ripples made by that stone as it struck Walden's placid surface were the first irradiations of an idea that has not yet reached Columbia College. The strange and beautiful idea of living one's life for its own sake-of doing only the things one likes to do, and shunning the needless complexity of organized relations-is so foreign to these halls that one might more trustingly hope for privacy on a merry go-round than seek it on Morningside Heights. . . . Our day is a restless scrimmage, a succession, of caucuses, conferences. luncheons, public appearances and group entertainments. "Activity...
Score, Centre, 41, Harvard 36, Goals from floor, McLeish 6, Fitts, 4. Feiring, McMillin 2, Redford 6, Maver 5, Walden 2, Goals from fouls, Chase 14, Mever, 11. Referee, Sounders. Umpire, Hoyt. Time keeper, Lincoln, Scorer, Reed, Time, two 20-minute halves...