Word: aspects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...certain that a magazine of your high repute and obvious desire for accuracy would not publish such a statement unless it possessed some foundation in actual fact. I am always interested in my father's activities, but confess with shame that in regard to this aspect of them I am woefully ignorant. May I, therefore, inquire what is the basis of truth on which you rely for the allegation contained in the words I have italicized and in particular how long and in what way this has been going...
...statement is hardly likely to be found in the comment of Harvard's undergraduates and alumni who consider the Harvard-Yale rivalry equal to none and the Crimson-Eli game the natural completion of the season. The Harvard athletic authorities' policy of emphasizing the be-all and end-all aspect of the Yale football game receives a severe check in the frank testimony of the Eli officials that their attitude is widely divergent from the Crimson point of view...
...many of the drawings and water colors of Picasso there is evidence of a widespread tendency in modern art toward the expression of an extremely limited aspect of a subject. The Greeks would have smiled at those who become ecstatic in contemplation of a shoulder blade, a heel, or a lobe of an ear seen from an unusual angle. And many contemporary artists, in their fragmentary, abortive, productions, have given more proof of ingenuity than of genius...
Last week President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University told Barnard College alumnae that in all the land there are only "about eight universities . . . and about eight more which have a university aspect and a university standard for a part of their activities." A true university, said he, is not a group of professional schools, but a "power house of the mind." Asked to name his Eight, he chuckled: "Oh, no! no! No, thank you! There is no way you can find...
...puddies created by Dunster's drainless walks makes one wonder whether the house by the Charles might not run out a landing place in the manner of Weld. While the Venetian aspect of its quadrangle on a rainy day serves admirably to shut out the less aquatic visitors, it is distressing that the Mayflower descendants should have to wade ashore. Fortunately the basement affords a dry route to the dining Hall, but the janitor Charon might find some other means of getting the students dry shod across the flood...