Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Once", continued Mr. Lupino, in relating some of the comic aspects of his stormy theatrical career. "I played the part of a lobster in a fairy story. I was only a child then, but, when I reached the age of 17 or 18, I played in a pantomine theatre where I impersonated successively the giants baby; a donkey, which was not difficult; and a little dove. When I once entered an acrobatic troupe. I received only $2 a week and 'food found'. Needless to say, every one found it except...
...enhance its distinction, he would require two years of graduate residence instead of the single one now prescribed. The work of these two years would be cultural rather than technical. The aspirant for this degree, though left more to his own resources than he had been in his undergraduate career, would still have access to lectures and the tutorial system. At the end of his term of preparation, the student would submit an essay, roughly corresponding to but much less exhaustive than the thesis for the doctorate, which would show his fitness to be considered a master of his field...
...decision of Johns Hopkins University to devote itself entirely to advanced students, the New Republic foresees the gradual passing of freshmen and sophomores from institutions of higher learning. Educators are beginning to recognize the change in attitude which comes over the undergraduate somewhere in the middle of his college career. The average freshman set adrift in the larger seas of college and university life falls a ready victim of the banalities of collegiatism and athleticism, and slides along a year or two, treating his courses as a necessary evil. And it is only after long exposure to scholarship that...
Hart Out. Along with its good news, Harvard had to announce some bad. Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph. D., Eaton professor of government since 1910 and a Harvard faculty member since 1883, terminated his long teaching career by resigning to devote his age (he is 71) to writing and editing. Of this sort of thing he has already done a lot, being' one of the most celebrated of U. S. historians, past or present. His most extensive single editorial production was The American Nation in 28 volumes. He has written on a score of phases of U. S. history, from...
...there through its revolution, its independence, its entrance into the Union, its secession and its return. He was a leading citizen of Texas and left his son a fortune that was comfortable but not superfluous. Edward M. House was reared in an atmosphere of war, violence, gunplay. His college career at Cornell was impaired by his frequently playing hookey to become a spectator of the game of politics, and ended at his father's death. In Texas as a young man he made himself famous as a political manager, by electing three governors in succession, each of them over...