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...passing criticism upon certain practices of a great institution like Harvard it is expedient for me to exercise great precaution. The resentment to any criticism will not come from the institution itself, for it can well bear criticism, but to accept unqualifiedly the name of Harvard as the magic rock that need only to be touched to bring forth all the essentials for a complete life...
...entered the war he served in the Harvard Surgical Unit, which was part of the British Expeditionary Force, and which worked near the firing line. Later he went to the war again as a surgeon in the service of the United States. To the football squad he was a rock of dependence, not merely for his professional skill in general but for his intimate knowledge of athletes and of those injuries to which they are peculiarly subject. He lived with an intenalty that crowded his every day and wore him out before his time...
...immoral. A good citizeness of the town, alarmed by these aspersions, appealed to the police; and a censoring sortie ensued which stirred the Yale News to earnest defense, playing Johnson to Berdan's Boswell. The performance went on but the increase in highway robberies on the road to Savin Rock has not yet been computed...
...reckless lender, but its prodigality, coupled with the damage wrought by the come-and-go governments, finally resulted in its failure. Now, however, under a system modelled after the Federal Reserve and put into operation by Americans, the rejuvenated Cuban bank should be so firmly set on a financial rock-bed that none of the Island's frequent political lapses should be able to budge it therefrom...
...lessen the cost. The price, however, of this aid to the poor was five dollars a ton higher than the price of coke sold by private concerns. A few days ago, in North Cambridge and Somerville, several families paid eighteen dollars a ton for an excellent grade of crushed rock, powdered with wet soft coal dust, which an affable stranger offered them in unlimited quantities. A small town in the heart of the Pennsylvania anthracite district has had to appeal to the federal government for aid in securing coal to heat its schools...