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...alone four years." In fact, Dartmouth is located in beautiful Hanover, N.H., where the foliage is now breathtaking, the air is always fresh and clean, the mountains are great for hiking and camping, and soon for hiking, and serenity of a college "alone in the wilderness," (from our motto) makes for a utopian setting for an education. I cannot understand how Mr. Knobler got that image, for one thing about Dartmouth that cannot he disputed is that it is really beautiful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Need to be 'Green with Envy' | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

...swimming pool on the U.S.C. campus two miles from downtown nor the velodrome at Cal State-Dominguez Hills 17 miles away could be called opulent. Both are handsome. "It's for the athletes," says Aquatics Commissioner Jay Flood. "It isn't for the architects." This seems a perfect motto for the Games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Eve of a New Olympics | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

...doubles as the school's library, there is an award from the Michigan Department of Education congratulating the school's fourth-graders for scoring 20% higher than their predecessors on a state assessment test. Beside the plaque, in bold construction-paper letters, is the school's motto: "We demand excellence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bold Quest For Quality | 10/10/1983 | See Source »

...soon as his usefulness to them is ended. He kills them, but not before he has received his own death-wound. In the Coast Guard cutter that has picked him up, half-delirious, dying, he tries to voice the dictum that is the book's real motto: "No matter how a man alone ain't got no bloody -* chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books 1937: TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT by Ernest Hemingway | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...Gertrude Stein's remark to him ("You are all a lost generation") he used as motto for The Sun Also Rises, whence it took its wide currency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books 1937: TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT by Ernest Hemingway | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

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