Word: wandering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Does anyone suppose a backer who has only to telephone a wager with the full sanction of the law to his credit bookmaker, will, for the sake of avoiding a shortening of the odds equal to a shilling in the pound, wander around in the districts of some manufacturing town looking for a mysterious individual into whose hands he might surreptitiously slip half a crown...
Overwhelmed with a profusion of attractive lectures today, I shall make no attempt to pick or chose before hand, but shall wander whither chance may lead me. Here are the leading possibilities...
...necessity for a required philosophy course is now met. Those students who wander uncertainly in the slough between religion and science may find assistance in Phil. 6a and 6b. Philosophy of Religion; or Phil. 7a. The Philosophic Basis of Religion; or Phil. 2, Philosophy and History of Religion; or Phil. 4a, Ethical Systems which makes "a comprehensive study. . . .of Christianity and modern materialism." Announced for next year is Phil. B, Types of Religion. "The purpose of this course is . . .to aid students in working out a tenable view of the world for themselves...
...spring comes slowly up this way and you find yourself wandering about murmuring "O, to be in England now that spring is here", go to the Repertory by all means. Let your romantic soul be frightened almost out of its ectoplasm for fear the girl win do "The Right Thing" instead of running away from her furniture collecting husband of 40. Hope against hope and in the end wander out into the night again and down Huntington Avenue murmuring "There is a God." You old softie...
...veritable parade of publicists and orators of his late lamented century into Harvard 2 at 10 o'clock. Syndicates and the radio have done for these--although we still have Dr. Cadman--and Professor Murdock may deliver a genuine obituary. But for my aesthetics--at noon, I mean to wander through the stone and plaster that line the corridors of Robinson Hall to hear Professor Edgell in Fine Arts 4a, discourse on Ammanati, della Porta, and early masters of the grand baroque which fills the heel of Italy...