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...subject which sounded nice or easy or looked vaguely attractive on the program. To be sure, the tutor continues meeting them at stated intervals, but he is apt to make the duration of the conferences rather short and the interval between them rather long, while, conversely, to the abler students he gives of himself eagerly and without stint. Meanwhile, he soothes his conscience with the reflection that the average student, lacking intellectual individuality as he does, is not entitled to individual attention and must be dealt with in the mass, as one of many in a class room...
Acting Secretary of War Dwight F. Davis and some 10,000 unofficial persons, wrung and tortured by the intensity of the spectacle they had witnessed, were heartened by seeing William Johnston, a weaker player than Tilden, walk over Borotra, an abler player than Lacoste, with the loss of only five games in three sets. Lacoste's inferiority to his teammate was further exhibited in the doubles next day. Borotra, quick at getting to the net, was not so quick as either Richards or Williams but, once there, he was forced to oppose sniping by himself, for little Lacoste was nowhere...
Significance. Of these two exhibitions, the latter is the abler. But there is a note of weariness in the work of the Ten Frenchmen, as if they were tired of marveling at the animated apprehensions of their own suave minds. Observers, noting this fatigue, remembering also the descent of the Classicist group upon the Fall Salon, weighed more reflectively the work of Feitelson, of Newking. Just such was the state of things when a thousand Holy Ladies, in the candle-flowered dusk of Latin cathedrals, suddenly smiled...
...Mark Sullivan, dean of Washington critics, adds: " Underwood's relation to his party and public life generally is not unlike the relation of the new British Premier, Bonar Law, to British public life. Underwood, indeed, might claim not unreasonably that he is probably, on the whole, a somewhat abler man than Bonar Law. Certainly he has a greater experience in public life and in party leadership...
...Were" and the other jingles in the Graduates' Number. Those who want to know the sort of absurdities that Robert Benchley '12 committed for the Lampoon before he gave up drawing and became Life's dramatic editor should consult page 455. Those who believe there is an abler comic artist in the country than Gluyas Williams '11, should glance at page 458 before making an irrevocable decision. Those who liked "Dere Mable" should read the skit by its author, Edward Streeter '14, on long-distance telephones. Finally, those who feel that the Lampoon is most unique when it is most...