Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spite of this metallic voice pounding in the wilderness of South Dakota-yes, the Catholic laity do want parochial schools for their boys and girls. They are eager to have their children trained in religion which makes for morality and turns us out finer citizens and gives parents better results from their offspring. The parochial school is doing what the parent may not have time to do himself in this sad workaday age of ours. The fact that laymen are perfectly willing to pay taxes for our public schools and then support at the same time parochial schools indicates...
...policy, but I think that Harvard still might expect from this organization the continuance of a tradition which played no small part in the making of Harvard University. Even if circumstances brought about the loss of Professor Baker and his guiding hand, the work which he inspired might better have been encouraged, rather than have been abandoned for the ugliest possible commercialism. Roger Wilson...
...whispering complained of is not confined to Radcliffe students nor to the Fogg library. Take the Child Library in Widener, where protracted conversations are carried on often in unsubdued tones, whether or not anyone else is trying to read, or better still the Library of Architecture in Robinson, which is a "men's library" if there ever was one, where talking, discussions, and even arguments take place in loud tones...
...would go up to this Mr. Woods, and holding him gently between the thumb and forefinger say "You are Fred Stone!" For never have we seen such a resemblance. This fellow looks exactly like Fred, and has a voice which would deceive Mrs Stone. If his dancing were slightly better, we would be convinced beyond doubt and Charles Dillingham and Will Rogers couldn't make us retract. But as things are, it is just an optical illusion; one of the better, none the less...
...digress no longer, "The Silver Swan" is first-rate musical entertainment. It is the only commendable "operetta" we have seen in several moons. It has much better than average singing, catching tunes, and a pleasant eyeful of costumes and sets. The humor is well carried off by Florenz Ames, assisted from time to time by the above-mentioned Mr. Woods. As the leading lady Myrtle Clark is all that could be desired...