Word: amide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris, Mary Garden, amid scenes of "gratifying and extraordinary enthusiasm," made her first appearance there in seven years, sang Fiora in L'slinore dei Tre Re with a voice considerably less shrill, less honed, than in her last U. S. performances. Her acting was passionate. A huge audience of French and U. S. citizens, with a sprinkling of Italians, paid 200 francs ($10.00) for their seats-the highest price ever asked for an operatic performance in Paris. ¶The Paris Grand Opera Company, it is rumored, will give for the first time in more than 30 years Rossini...
...dead. Even a chapel would be a useful monument, on the door of which posterity might well read, "Dedicated with One Eye on the Memory of the Harvard Dead, and other on the Seating Requirements of the Harvard Living." Such a memorial would lose its sacred majesty amid the laughter of men who no longer believe in the pragmatic philosophy, "It's good if it works...
...faces of the Sophomores. It is easy to see that the situation has become unbearable, for the Chairman of the Sophomore Vigilance Committee in a letter to the Princetonian complains of Princeton indifference on this all-important question. In spite of the fact that "the 1924 Senior Council, amid its stormy regime, took a definite stand in favor of Freshman customs", and in spite of the fact that "the concensus of undergraduate opinion was in favor of even stricter Freshman customs", laxity of enforcement has engendered such indifference that Princeton spirit is in great danger of being undermined and lost...
...full Pontificial robes, the Pope was carried the entire length of the Church in the sedia gestoria amid scenes of emotion. Owing to the installation of a loud speaker-a great innovation for the conservative Catholic Church-His Holiness' voice was distinctly heard throughout the long service into the recesses of the basilica. Supported by all the Cardinals in Rome, including Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia, who led 15,000 Americans to Rome for the event, the Pope began the mystic ceremony of making the Blessed Sister Therese, the Blessed Sainte Thérèse. Outside the Church, hundreds...
Secondly, the tutor must have the responsible supervision of his pupil's academic career throughout his undergraduate days; in order that he may unify his studies, and see that his development is not thwarted amid the mazes and pitfalls of grades, courses, and similar disturbances of the peace...