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...serious point I wish to make," the speaker concluded. "New England is not barren as a background for writing, and those of you who go to it will find the characters there examples of commonsense, Americanism, loyalty and a love of those principles on which America was founded...
...sometimes get the "snob" instead of the man we want; the true aristocrat. It is a word we shudder at these days; and yet, did not the Cambridge group of poets and thinkers form a genuinely creative aristocracy, functioning at a time when the rest of America was quite barren of thought...
...Office of the Dean as the chief point of contact between the undergraduate and the college organization, it is not surprising that most of us have hazy ideas about the administration of Harvard University. For the explanation of why an appeal to be removed from probation will tall on barren soil if addressed to the Board of Overseers and other such perplexing matters the following may be of interest...
...that is a country of great natural resources, and that as yet it was practically undeveloped. Except along the courses of the rivers the country is a desert, but there are many recently discovered oil fields which are now being used by France and England. It is in this barren area that the Desert-Arabs, the remnants of the original inhabitants of the country, live. Wandering about the desert in tribes, they consider themselves the highest class socially of all the people of the country. They have an especially deep hatred for the City Arabs, and they make frequent raids...
...than ours, and that the world which the early poets looked at, and through which they walked, had a kind of poetical quality of its own, and almost without changing could pass into song. The snow lies, thick now upon Olympus, and its steeped scarped sides are bleak and barren, but once, we fancy, the white feet of the Muses brushed the dew from the anemones in the morning, and at evening came Apollo to sing to the shepherds in the vale. But in this we are merely lending to other ages what we desire, or think we desire...