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With green bag drooping wearily over one shoulder, the Vagabond picked his way along that slushy stretch of sidewalk which borders the Fogg Museum. It was five o'clock, foggy, and the end of a hard and bitter day. The bells in Memorial Hall had just ceased tolling, and those...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/16/1934 | See Source »

Freshmen living in the Yard will be deeply grieved to find themselves awakened the first morning at five minutes of seven by the leisurely but loud tolling of a deep-toned bell, slung high in the spire of the new Memorial Chapel. For five minutes it will continue its song...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 9/1/1933 | See Source »

At the hour of Goethe's death, 11:25 a. m., every belfry in all Germany sent forth last week a solemn tolling. Lumps rose in millions of German throats. Gasped President Peterson of the Goethe Society, fighting to master his emotions, "Goethe was ours!"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: A Man | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

"As to a 'prayer or grace' at meals:...I incline to the opinion that particular word is not likely to have been used by New England Congregationalists in the early days. In trying to think up some other word, 'blessing' and 'thanksgiving' came into my mind, and I scored on...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRADITIONS OF HARVARD REBORN IN HOUSE PLAN | 2/5/1930 | See Source »

The excessively ugly, good-humored and unambitious Peregrine ("Pithecanthropus") Smith, on a fortnight's pedestrian holiday from his police duties, meets up with an aggressive young Scottish engineer. They set out to cross Dukesmoor together in a thick fog. From the window of the moorland house a face watches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder! | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

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