Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opportunity to form their own judgments on the pieces in question. It should encourage the development of appreciation of art, for a student is more likely to take advantage of the opportunity to procure pictures to hang on his wall than to make regular excursions to Fogg. A better sense of value for pictures will also come from seeing them in one's own room in surroundings of comparative comfort rather than in the more severe background of a museum...
...will probably find this mystery play more interesting than the recent average. It is frankly of the "I-wouldn't-spend-another-night-in- this-house-for-a-million-dollars" school, but it has its moments. The plot revolves around a house-party at a "haunted" country seat. Better acted, it would be more diverting, for it has comedy touches that might cover the holes in the construction if played with more subtlety. A. P. Kaye as a detective and Charles Warburton as the inevitable butler give thoroughgoing performances...
...definitely better and more flexible arrangement of course requirements is expressed in the adoption of a new nomenclature and altered demands by the English Department. Like the History Department, it has renumbered its basic courses upon a somewhat more sane system than the usual football-signal confusion, an advantage so evident that it is strange not to find it carried through in other departments, especially those of literature...
...appointing Charles Francis Adams '88, treasurer of Harvard College, as Secretary of the Navy, President-elect Hoover has shown himself to be influenced by more than political considerations. That there were other men whom the public could have better expected chosen, was evidenced by the fact that Mr. Adams's name was not even mentioned by the press as a possibility, although he was among those who have recently conferred with Mr. Hoover in Miami. It seems plain that the new cabinet will be appointed with less regard for invisible government, and more for personal qualifications...
...second and last acts are considerably better. The camp at Yaphank, Long Island is amusingly portrayed and the usual soldier cracks go off with unexpected success. The scenes "over there" are short, and after being captured in a shell hole, our hero ends up in a German dugout. He is just about to be executed when the Armistice is announced...