Word: downs
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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If education is composed of only academic matter, then it is high time that I withdrew from the University and went down to South America to join a revolution. Eugene Du Bois '33
For the rest of the book, Colfax is struggling to take his wife away from the easy, if empty life of their parents and their friends. His wife is perfectly satisfied where she is, and has all the non-aggressive, but immovable resistance of the Plymouth Rock. Her beauty and...
Some fellows in Providence, R. I.; at present enrolled in a college they have down there called Brown, were reported last night as having broken the peace, a lot of furniture, and the hearts of their loving teachers. They threw bottles into the street, chairs, divans; and undoubtedly advantage was...
Upon that background a young Oxford boy and his sister are introduced. They bring to the humdrum provincials a taste of the outside world that was theirs before marriage tied their existance down to a limited routine. The boy is a somewhat typical English lady as lady novelists conceive him...
It may be gathered from this account, and rightly so, that the author has the urbanity of a humorist. But this urbanity, an Addisonian touch of gentility, does not, as might be thought, drag the statements of the writer down to a mere Thetorical smoothness. He does what he sets...