Word: attaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Parnassus, may swell with new clation at the thought that Shakespeare is competing with them. But this unwonted fame may turn the true lover of Shakespeare to cynical thoughts and remind him of what Bismarck said when he was hissed by the populace of Berlin: "If I ever attain any degree of popularity, I shall know I have done something incredibly stupid...
Comment. M. Bukharin, editor of the Pravda, explains this metamorpho sis of Communism as due to a new-conception of the means of attain ing Socialism, meaning that, in opposition to Red terrorism, "the proletarian State must get a hold upon the chief commanding heights of industry and commerce; then, by means of commercial competition, conquer private capitalism, and the quicker we develop our economic re sources the sooner we shall accomplish our socialistic aims...
...harmless threat. Unquestionably the public watches with awe and apprehension the lengthening days of the hunger strike, lending the victims a gradually increasing support of maudlin sympathy. Since the days of Pre-war Suffragettes in England, the hunger strike has become the last resort of persons who could not attain their ends by any other method...
...course would not be a dependent one, a satellite of revived English 47. Nor would it attempt to exclude all those who did not intend to become actors. Rather it would serve as a broad medium of instruction through which the undergraduate, as well as his elders, might attain a proper knowledge and appreciation of stage production. Thus it would serve as another way for the student to round out a truly liberal education. The Fine Arts Department already has several men fully competent to teach such a course, and there are, outside of Harvard, others readily obtainable. Only official...
...carrying on the campaign the committee has tried to emphasize the worthiness of its cause which is not, strictly speaking, of a charitable nature. The money is devoted to enabling the students to attain a point where they will be able to support themselves and not to furnishing them with a purely gratuitous college education...