Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...film is also well adapted to the revue. One is thankful that he can turn to the refreshing scenery of the Ozarks after the dazzling artificiality of the stage programme. Harold Bell Wright's "Shepherd of the Hills" is much better in film form than as a novel, because it reveals the heart of the Arkansas-Missouri Ozarks in all their beauty, picturesqueness, and wildness. In a glorious setting we have a typical elemental drama of emotion among the Arkansas mountain folk. Feuds, stills, stark love, stark hate, stark death, are all mixed in best First National style. The conglomeration...
...fish but of the man. Even sharks have their preferences, and Mr. Heilner might not have come up to their standards. And who is the man who would admit himself to have physical qualifications so poor that a shark would not think him worth the eating? Far better not to offer him the opportunity...
...arise, Professor Tat-lock in yesterday's CRIMSON said that "this is the first year of the contest, and it is likely enough that methods may be altered another year." A change that would put the awards more definitely within the grasp of the hopeful many would perhaps serve better the cause of scholarship...
...undergraduates turning to serious music was hooted down as futile, and even worse, as unfitting. Unpleasantness was bound to result; the self-imposed ostracism of the University Glee Club from the intercollegiate organization brought more accusations of snobbishness; but the ideal was chosen, the standard set, and for better or worse Doctor Davison led his group on its unique...
...know of their selection a good while ahead. Since all Seniors at Harvard who are English concentrators take this examination, there was not the same reason for selecting them long in advance, and it was the judgement of a good many representative students consulted that it would be better not to make advance announcement of their names unless shortly before the examination. But clearly it would not be fair to the Yale men to select the ten best papers out of much over a hundred at Harvard, and line them up against those of ten men who had been previously...