Word: blissfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...month ago Professor Bliss Perry announced that beginning with next fall, only those men who had failed to pass the comprehensive examination in English with a grade of 70 or above would be required to take English A. The further change announced yesterday, which goes into effect immediately, permits of specialization to all those who have averaged C during the first half year. Special sections have been organized, for instance, in debating, short story writing, and playwrighting...
Taken together, these reforms are a significant commentary upon Professor Bliss Perry's conduct of English A during the short period that he has dealt with the difficult problem of Freshman English. Just as the first innovation will limit the membership of this course to those who have failed to obtain a mastery over simple English expressions in school, so the second will transform its conduct, so far as it appears possible within the narrow limits of its field, into a course which will have a more justifiable place on a college curriculum than it has had in the past...
Among musicians it is generally agreed that string chamber music is the highest, purest medium of expression. The wealthy patrons of art have taken heed: Felix M. Warburg, Clarence H. Mackay, James P. Warburg, Mrs. Robert Bliss, Mrs. Otto H. Kahn, Mrs. Alma Gluck Zimbalist. So, in Manhattan's Aeolian Hall, last week, a new quartet was heard, enthusiastically applauded for a lovely rendition of the Mozart C Major, Schubert D Minor-the Musical Art Quartet. Three of the artists are pupils of Franz Kneisel:-Sascha Jacobsen, Bernard Ocko, Louis Kaufman; one, Marie Roemaet-Rosanov, cellist, pupil...
Professor J. D. M. Ford '94 and Mrs. Ford, Professor C. H. Grandgent '83 and Mrs. Grandgent, Professor W. G. Howard '91 and Mrs. Howard, Professor B. S. Turlbut '87 and Mrs. Hurlbut, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Lane, Professor J. L. Lowes '03 and Mrs. Lowes, Professor Bliss Perry...
...feeble lines, and told her to see what she could with it. In its profound inanity she discovers as many laughs as are to be heard in one theatre anywhere along Broadway. Gowned in a Turkish towel, she warbles her hopelessly ridiculous songs, wrestles with Purity League President Bliss, flops on her other end with the savoir faire and polite restraint of a duchess, with a twinkling in her two eyes merrier than all the unbridled hilarity in the audience. While Miss Lillie is not tumbling about, there are laughs for Actor Charles Winninger and laughs for Actress Helen Broderick...