Word: boston
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...past the general feeling that Harvard has turned away from the Boston colleges athletically has not lacked foundation. Together with the more frequent appearance of the colleges over the river in the lists of Harvard's opponents lately, the conferences are significant of a somewhat closer understanding in the realm of sports between the University and its neighbor institutions...
...contemporary local interest to Boston readers is the comment upon the suppression in Boston by a "smug" society of an early edition of "Leaves of Grass" Speaking of this society Mr. Morris has this to say: "They had probably understood nothing of the text but those passages which they alleged to be objectionable. Thus the guest of Emerson and Sanborn and the finest and purest men and women of Boston and Concord, the friend of Tennyson and Longfellow, and of Mrs. Gilchrist was found unclean by an anonymous group who were unqualified to receive the rich message he brought them...
...mere layman's thickheadedness that makes one regard "falsehood and deception" as somewhat inconsistent with the highest moral aims. Perhaps it is an indication of profligacy, if one thinks the methods employed in dogging a bookseller until he sells to a supposedly responsible buyer a book starred on the Boston List of Genuine Literature That You Mustn't Read. And doubtless one is being a free-thinker, if he feels that the system of Jesuit double-meanings is getting a little out-dated...
...falsehood idea should furnish an analogy for a two-purposes-in-reading theory, by which what must be kept with holy zeal from the unconcenrated eyes of ordinary mortals can be read with propriety, and of course without danger to their purity of soul, by these unofficial collagues of Boston's Finest...
There are all sorts of Christmases, as the Vagabond very well knows. And if the day means one thing in Boston and another in Hamilton, if it means one thing to the man in the pulpit and another to the man in the street, it at least means something to them all. That, perhaps, is more than can be said of any other holiday...