Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feel that we need to raise our standards in regard to the requirements for continuing at Harvard. . . . Our problem is not to grade our less brilliant students more harshly nor to treat more ruthlessly those who are able but unwilling; our problem is to find ways and means of awakening the enthusiasm and interest of the lazy and to guide those who are having difficulty in one group of courses into other departments of learning for which they may be much better equipped...
Socialite women on the French Riviera had the brilliant idea last winter of dressing for the beach in flowered brassieres and wrap-around shorts, supposedly copied from the modest, knee-length pareu that Tahitian women wear. Last week U. S. manufacturers were plugging "Tahitian pareos" for the Florida socialite trade. But by a cruel irony, in Tahiti itself, biggest of the French Society Islands Tahitian women were forbidden to wear indecent pareus. Instead they were supposed to wear imported French cotton dresses...
With the greatest of gusto and good humor he ceaselessly tries to explain his theories of the emotional value of color, and in particular his fondness for brilliant reds. Slow-witted listeners generally retire baffled, content that the "Vermillionaire's" colors, whatever they may mean, are pure, shrewdly chosen, and form most decorative patterns...
...match featured by brilliant Crimson play the Varsity A squash team defeated the Harvard Club 4-1 yesterday afternoon at Boston...
This is one aspect of the Faculty problem, but there is another which also deserves attention. Some provision should be made for the orderly promotion of brilliant young scholars and teachers who are already connected with the University. In any healthy organization, channels should be kept open for the infusion of vigorous new blood at the bottom of the ranks. At Harvard the corps of tutors consists for the most part of younger men serving their apprenticeship in academic life. Harvard is particularly fortunate in having such a body of reserves to draw upon. For various reasons, however, the University...