Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although an Italian, nurtured amid brilliant stage-lights and full throated choruses in the Scala at Milan, he is still an ardent and perfect Wagnerite. Thus he pleases both the Verdi and Puccini enthusiasts, with their passion for the good old things, and the moderns, who want to get away from the bad old things. He lives solely for his job, arrives at the "House" early each day, leaves late...
...closing speaker, P. W. Williams '25, was easily the most brilliant speaker of the evening. In replying to the argument of the preceding speaker that a test for character was also an essential requisite for admission to college. Williams said, "By character they mean application, industry, and effort. The examination system is the best test of character as it is properly defined for it requires these essential qualities. By intelligence tests they attempt to estimate a candidate's promise, but in view of the fact that a man's character does not change in a day, the best test...
...graduated from Manhattan College with all the honors obtainable. He was sent to Rome to learn more. There his scholarship and mental grace endeared him to Vatican officials, and when the aging Bishop of Brooklyn secured him as Secretary he congratulated himself on having one of the most brilliant priests ever originated west of the River Shannon. The Bishop aged. Young Father Mundelein assumed increasing responsibility and received, about every twelve months, a raise in rank, until finally the Pope made him Titular Bishop of an obscure church at Rome...
BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK?The tired business man is unhorsed with a brilliant lack of respect...
Princeton, N. J., March 15-Cornell, playing a brilliant game, defeated the Princeton basketball team this evening by the score of 30-20. The score at the end of the first half, 15-11, shows that Princeton was out-played throughout the contest. Wedell of Cornell was the individual star, being responsible for seven of the team's twelve field goals. Princeton scored but six goals from the field...