Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order that undergraduates may have some systematized point of departure for considering business and industrial opportunities available to them after graduation, the CRIMSON will publish a series of five short articles each presenting in brief outline some major field of business employment. Because these discussions will be exceedingly brief, their value, if any, must be merely suggestive. For more adequate information on any of the subjects treated here underclassmen and seniors are invited to the Alumni Placement Office in Room R. University Hall. The succeeding articles will be presented as follows...
Excellent photography, direction, and acting contribute to the general merit of the picture. In its moving panorama, such figures as Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Johnson, and a certain Mr. Boswell all occupy the stage for one brief moment. The action, it must be admitted, is slow, but never does interest lag. Only two defects can be noticed--a drawn out conclusion tending toward anti-climax, and the uncertain Margaret Mitchell ending...
...years) that most Court officials who knew how all the little details of a Coronation have to be managed, had preceded Her Majesty to the grave. Some $25.000 was spent by the Howards doing over and refurnishing apartments in one of their castles to be occupied on a brief visit of Queen Victoria, and the present Duke treasures in a glass case the parting gift to his late father bestowed by Her Majesty. This is a small, blue-glass bottle with stopper-intrinsic value perhaps...
...women, Heideneck invents a third, one Leopoldine Dur. There happens to be a real Leopoldine Dur (Paula Wessely), companion to an antique countess. The resulting farce is played with such subtle humor and skill that spectators are scarcely disturbed by the fact that all dialog is in German, necessitating brief English footnotes...
...evident from this brief survey of some of the principal courses how the practice varies in every course. It is believed that the faculty will not attempt to impose any set of standardized rules applicable to every course. However, there is nothing now in the University rules that prohibits the return of the books, and the decision as to their disposition is up to the faculty members in charge of each course...