Word: aims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Where are there such hosts as at Harvard? Where indeed? Harvard men are charming. The cannot be said to aim at, for the essentially are, good form. They have raised the genial practices of hedonism to the point of polished art. Half of them for instance, would no more think of studying without a glass and bottle at hand than the other half would of studying under any circumstances. The have the happy faculty of taking nothing seriously, least of all football: a virus of which Yale might do well to absorb a little. For intrinsic vigor and communal health...
...Ross' brush is the servant of his understanding as well as of his emotions. He gives us the keen satisfaction of a beautifully finished and ordered performance. Not confined to one particular mode of expression, he ranges freely and easily from one to another. It has been his aim to understand and to practice the different modes of the art as they have been developed by the reat masters: the mode of outlines and flat tones; of low relief, of full relief, and of realistic representation of what we see as we see it. His idea is that the modern...
...athletic competition. In that time the two universities have engaged in a rivalry intense and fierce and withal the most logical because it is between friends and equals. Such a tradition needs no artificial inspiration. All Harvard from player down to editor recognizes and honors a rivalry, whose final aim can be only victory, but whose virtue lies within itself...
...best solution appears to be the last named, that of the happy medium. Obviously the quickest method of accomplishing this aim is to copy the Oxford idea of Pass men and Honor men. But, excluding discussion as to whether or not this would ever be advisable with the American undergraduate, it may be pointed out that in those institutions which have tried this arrangement-- Columbia and Smith--the tendency has been toward a decrease in the number of Honor men, a contrary reaction from what might be expected. This is of course undesirable, especially when there are other means...
Throughout the play may be observed the conflict between the idealism of Pa Holmes and the realism which characterises the attitude of his worthy spouse, Anna. Mr. Holmes is a laborer whose aim in life is promoting the Brotherhood of man, and in pursuance of this theory he brings home one night a "fille de joie" named Violet Hunt, who, much against the wishes of Mrs. Holmes is established in the family. The son of the house Alf, deserting his former unprepossessing sweetheart, falls in love with Violet, and his marriage is supported by his father, the idealist. Mrs. Holmes...