Word: possession
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...happy; no one who lives on his capital can be happy. Enjoyment of alcoholic drink depends on its being ungrudging. The days are gone when a man will offer a conktail to another in sheer exuberance of good feeling. If a man is so fortunate as still to possess the ingredients for cocktails, he will be calculating in disposing of them. There will be a few, a very few persons that he will deem worthy of admitting to cocktail fellowship. And even with them he will feel a niggardly reluctance gnawing at his heart as he distributes the dividends from...
...America it can well be said. His education by this wise move of the Council will be broadened, and a valuable outlook on Harvard will be his good fortune. On his return to the homeland, he will find that from the associations gained in various a activities he will possess a truer picture of American life than was gained in the confines of the class room...
...foregoing irrefutable torrent of natural history leads right down to the following fair proposition: Why not pretend that we possess that calm and bloodless self-control that the professors pretend to possess when faced with the crushing fact of spring? Why not? This vast effort may seem pointless. But if we make good our pretense as they often manage to make good theirs, yes, in the very Tace of spring, ours will be a great consummation, a true millenium. The barriers of June will be removed, and we will be in a position to say to our professor: "Verily...
...final, prayerful reading, in the solitude of our closets, we advise the perusal of what Mr. Ayme-Martin has to say about Harvard. If with this could be combined the talk which Doctor Johnston Ross gave in Appleton Chapel, Tuesday morning, we should possess a homily from the frequent perusal of which we Harvard men, could profit much. B. S. HURLBUT
...recognized ability will later be selected from the contributors to form an honorary advisory board whose judgment will be taken in selecting the articles for publication. The men serving on this committee are bound not to publish their own work if unbiased judges consider other contributions to possess equal merit...