Word: highs
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...been received from the Kansas City Harvard Club to take lunch at the University Club in Kansas City on December 28. In the afternoon the club has been invited to tour the city in automobiles and attend a tea. The club will give a concert in the Westport High School Auditorium at 8.15 in the evening...
Freshmen drilling, on the Charlesbank will not start till after the reopening of College, when less than a week will intervene before the initial game of the yearling season, against Cambridge High. The University team will probably take part in a practice game with a visiting amateur seven at the Arena the same evening...
...they so soon achieved would still be far away; even this generation might still have been groping vaguely in the darkness. But they bore the torch unflinchingly, and passed it on glowing yet brighter than before. The torch now is ours, and it is we who must lift it high--not with strife, and bickering, and gloomy forebodings, but with calm trust and steadfast purpose. This is our heritage--this is our duty on the stage of life; that courage, truth, and light shall dwell forever in the land of the Pilgrims...
...idea of the fact is probably due to an historic idea that the north is dreadfully cold, and to the fact that the present-day school geographies are usually incorrect on this point. Greenland, however, is an exception to the rules as it has a heavy rainfall and a high altitude, both of which factors tend to produce heavy glaciation. Nevertheless, on the great Canadian Archipelago there is no trace of glaciation for the past thousand years...
...that recognizes the critical conditions as only temporary. All industry is suffering--manufacturing as well as agriculture; to favor the farmers and not the manufacture can be justified only if the legislation is framed to meet an unusual and temporary crisis. There must be good cause for creating artificially high prices or the product of one industry and not of another...