Word: forwarding
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...finds the Harvard Endowment Fund within hailing distance of the 80 percent of the desired amount, with every prospect that the fund will enter the final fifth before the first of June. The fund management is looking forward to a substantial increase with the return of graduates next month for commencement. The latest fund totals were: Boston, $4,720,677 New York, 4,105,322 Outside, 3,356,788 Total...
...right for gestures, but except for such trifling superficialities oral discussion in Cambridge in 1920 probably does not vary much from oral discussion in Greece and Rome before the Christian era. It is safe to say that we will see no innovations. There is nothing similar to the "forward pass" in debating. It may be, however, that this contest will afford the educator with an inquiring mind a better means of contrasting the college student of the East with the college student of the West than was afforded in the recent football game. However that may be, it should...
...national record has been one of forward-looking Republicanism. He supported every war measure and was a member of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs. He led the fight for the return of the American troops sent to Siberia. He fathered laws for the amelioration of wage conditions among Federal employees. He has been one of the leading opponents of the League of Nations, and was the only man in the nation with the courage to follow President in his tour of the country and present the arguments against the League...
...Poets Will Come Forward...
...will do now in peace times. These men will fade into insignificance as time goes on. For such men the war was the great thing, and everything in the remainder of their lives will be an anti-climax. But the men who were poets before the war will come forward to the front rank. During the war these men wrote practically nothing, for 'poetry is an emotion recollected in tranquility.' And so the coming generation will be ripe for the writing of this retrospective poetry...