Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard Engineering School has not received the publicity it deserves. Handicapped by starting in a war-time year, and lacking proper space and equipment, it has been forced to hide its light beneath a bushel. Next autumn., however, the school should be entirely ready to function on a permanent basis...
...many minds "tradition" means sitting on a fence and spinning tops, or ducking some insubordinate Freshman beneath the cooling influence of a town pump. But such a conception is extreme...
...hung at the end of the Living Room, and the inevitable speeches. It is altogether fitting that the Seniors should celebrate in the manner of their pre-war Freshman and Sophomore years the last evening before they conceal their physical eccentricities and their precarious relations with the College Office beneath caps and gowns...
...Although it is not realized by the general public," said Mr. Arliss, "workshop plays, produced in the semi-privacy of a small theatre are unostentatiously 'eating their way' beneath the mass of unworthy plays which we have to deal with. By 'unworthy' plays I mean the type commonly known as what the public wants,' but which it really does not want at all. The frivolous, plotless play has been largely brought on by the war, under the excuse of giving people something they can follow without thought or effort; but in such light productions, the mind is much more liable...
...occasion of the death of any great man and the accompanying review of his life and doings, one is suddenly minded of one's own shortcomings and the imperfections that hitherto had lain deeply hidden beneath an ever accumulated mass of self-satisfaction. Then it is that the ardent disciple of greatness pauses in his oftentimes misguided course, and, being seized with a wholesome attack of doubts and misgivings, humbly seeks to mend his ways...