Word: cheapening
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Turkish scene. It is wholly inconsistent and contrary to the spirit of the production. The ceremony is already farcical enough without deliberately making absurd horse-play out of it. The directors would have done well to omit the music altogether rather than to drag in songs which cheapen the scene...
...matter which concerns them so deeply and they feel that four years are none too long for their course of study. A lowering of the age at which professional men can begin work is indeed necessary. But to bring about such a result Harvard college has no right to cheapen its diplomas. The result can be accomplished either by the united influence of the large colleges upon the preparatory schools or, as proposed by the method of anticipating studies. Let the attendance at preparatory schools be steady in boyhood, as in France, and young men will then invariably graduate from...