Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main Bulletin Board of Lowell House there is now hanging a little strip of silk. It is not a large or particularly brilliant spot of color but it represents all that is implicit in the name of Lowell House. It is the Lowell House tie. It will, perhaps, not add much to the sartorial splendor of the carefree house member. It will not spruce up the drabness of last years grey flannels. But it will convey a jaunty mark of distinction. In the drawing rooms of Back Bay hearts will palpitate as the Lowell tie swings into the receiving line...
...that universities should free themselves from the shackles of commercialization by the route of endowment, is sound. A transformation of emphasis there must be and it can come only from a determined and unceasing effort on the part of universities to break the spell of monetary success and attract brilliant men into cultural rather than lucrative pursuits...
...Finnish mainland last week the Lapuan or Finnish Fascist revolt that petered out so dismally fortnight ago (TIME, March 14) was punctured last week by the murder of Minna Craucher. Minna Craucher, brilliant, amiable and 40, was a well-known character in Finland. She started her career as a secret agent for the early Soviet Cheka. After the War her house in Helsingfors was a salon for Finnish writers and artists. Dozens of novelists dramatized her adventures. Minna Craucher kept up her spying, was jailed three times for fraud. She knew a great deal about the Lapuan movement...
...married at 16, divorced last year. She got her first important part when Howard Hughes, remaking Hell's Angels as a talking picture, gave her Greta Nissen's role. In effect, Jean Harlow is a shiny refinement of Clara Bow. She is a competent though not a brilliant actress. Her contours are luxurious though slender; her face childish but engaging. Her most obvious and enticing quality is the peculiar pale thatch on top of her head. It got her her first part in the cinema, when a director noticed her standing outside a Kansas City drugstore. It caused her pressagent...
...divisional examinations. And when the general course reduction goes into effect next year, it will be even less representative. Requiring no thesis, it does not show sufficient extra work over that of the pass man to justify honors. Further it gives too easy an opportunity for the brilliant man to become lazy and avoid the labor an honors thesis requires. Perhaps the strongest argument, however, against general honors is that it marks an end in themselves, an attitude that the University is trying to get away from by means of the tutorial system...