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There is another side to the question, however. Not that we would accuse the club of being falsely "high-brow." Not that we would for a moment go back to the old policy of barren repetition. Far from it. And yet it is not altogether unfitting that the chorus should occasionally unbend and give a few of the threadbare tunes still dear to the hearts of Harvard men everywhere. It does not smack unduly of small-town collegiate spirit to enjoy hearing the football songs and "Fair Harvard." The protests raised by the alumni in several western cities during...
...nothing to show for his time or reading and concentration, his mind merely becomes a sieve, a funnel where everything is poured in and passed out, and nothing retained. Like a field to which nothing is returned after the crop is harvested, so the mind becomes an empty barren place, productive of no vintage, a place despised of men. --PURDUE EXPONENT
...have aught to say let them speak, for if there is substance in their views, it will out anyway, but if their leaders are false prophets their curses will be transformed into blessings and their idle words will fall as rain from the duck's back and prove as barren as the seed in the sands of the Sahara. At all events, calling your opponent names, attributing to him harsh epithets, and gloating over his misery, any such action is not American and does not help to clear up the issue. JOSEP: S. SHUBOW...
...time of the class of 1920 dance the barren condition of the building forbade the use of the several upper rooms for boxes. Fortunately the comparatively small number of men already returned from service allowed the boxes to be arranged comfortably in the lower floor and upper hall. This season, however, the whole of the second floor is to be thrown open for the use of box-holders, and in this way the increased number of guests will more than be accomodated...
...trip involved several incidental features which were matters of great personal interest. In particular I was impressed with Siberia. Instead of finding it a barren land inhabited by political exiles, with occasional mastodons embedded in ice, we found it to be a land of great beauty and promise and with immense opportunities for young Americans. This is also true of European Russia. While there are stretches of desert land near Manchuria, there are in the centre of the country enormous areas of fertile land already yielding excellent crops of wheat and rye. The world's food supply could be raised...