Word: adaptive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have just finished reading Mr. Nichol's review of the "movie"version of "Brown of Harvard", which I helped adapt for the screen and I make haste to apologize to all Harvard undergraduates for the fact that, according to Mr. Nichols, the photoplay is not in the least like Harvard as it really...
...Reform Bills of 1832 and 1867, and the plebiscites of Napoleon III, it serves as a reminder that Japan still copies. She now has most of Europe's political features, a constitution, militarism, world-wide diplomacy, and universal suffrage. She has amply proved her descriptive trilogy, "adept, adopt, adapt...
...School last September were quickly made aware of the fact, and for several months we termed ourselves "Williams in China." Verily if we had gone to Joochow for a postgraduate course we should have found the methods of study no less unfamiliar than those to which we had to adapt ourselves here...
Freshmen entering Harvard are whirled quickly along a course of life strikingly unfamiliar. They are buffeted about in a highly individual and complex world. Before they can gain their equilibrium, it is demanded of them that they be quite orientated. Only the prematurely fit who quickly adapt themselves survive. Experiences teaches, but its methods are needlessly harsh...
...delights in being barbarous. ... It is the difference be tween life in the Garden of Eden and life in the 'artistic' quarter of Gomorrah. . . . "The people who compose popular tunes are not musicians enough .to be able to invent new forms of expression. All they do is adapt the discoveries of great men to the vulgar taste. . . . Beethoven is responsible, because it was he who first devised really effective mu- sical methods for the direct expression of passion and emotions. Beethoven's passion and emotions happened to be noble. But, unhappily, he made it pos sible...