Word: harvesting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...live." The Harvard Advocate has no quarrel with the Harvard Magazine (white). The fact that both strive to be literary papers is, I am aware, excellent ground in which to plant rumors. But the Harvard Magazine reaps in fields other than those from which the Advocate procures its harvest. The Advocate, as one man, agrees with you most heartily that the Harvard Magazine should stand on its merits. It was in accordance with this idea that I had removed from the number now in press a cartoon unfavorable to the Harvard Magazine. In justice, let me add that the majority...
From a careful study of the situation, it appears that there is not enough labor seeking employment on the farms to harvest the crops this year. If we can not get men from the colleges and cities who are physically able to work on these farms, the crops will not be saved, and if the crops are lost, it will be almost as bad as if we lose the battle now raging in the West...
Finally, action to be effective must be immediate. Farmers will not plant this spring the crops we need unless they are first given definite assurance of the men and machinery to harvest them...
...many years it has been a matter of regret that Thanksgiving Day, instead of being a religious festival, suited to the harvest season, was deteriorating into an excuse for over-eating. The original significance of the day had been overlaid with football games to such an extent that the Pilgrim fathers would have had hard work to recognize...
...wisdom that is not their own, to an end that they may not see. Principalities and republics are stirred by the desire for revolution, though the result of the revolving is hidden. Surely in this unrest of the nations there is ground and seed for the harvest...