Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...registrar of the university. Only 35 per cent of those who matriculate into the graduate schools of Columbia ever gain their degrees, and only 25 per cent, according to Dean Woodbridge, may be said to have justified the expense of their tuition. In such a situation it is clear that the problems of elimination of the applicants for the graduate schools of the country are fully as acute as the corresponding college problems...
...phrase which sums up his conclusions: "Education has already produced too many excited individuals. It is producing too few dispassionate scholars." On this point the graduate schools of the country are undoubtedly indicted. The force of education as a projection of knowledge into the future should be nowhere more clear than in the graduate school. Neither pedants nor radicals, but rather teachers with something of the inspirational touch are to be expected when a long overdue attention is paid to what constitutes graduate school eligibility...
...reason for this is clear. After the sen battles with Yale in 1923 and 1924 the mud-caked pants were not hung up in the Fogg Museum; they were washed out for use in spring practice. Even now it is only too true that one may see the numeralled crimson jersey that ripped through the thin blue line in 1926, working on the dummy with the McKinlock second team. Harvard is indicated on the charge of emotional indifference, and all because of the utilitarian souls of Joe Dube and the Harvard athletic Association...
...Paolo Strozzi, Italian painter. His lougings, his moods and inspirational moments, embroidered by Miss Earle's imagination, are as well presented as could be expected when it is an Englishwoman, cold and cultured, who tries to fathom the murky moods of an Italian who never once saw them in clear form himself...
...people. All the tales are tense, highly nervous situations, but in writing them. Mr. Hemingway does not himself become overwrought: with fine restraint, with a knife-like humor, the author recounts the tragedies and failures of his characters. He writes in the simplest possible terms, in starling pictures, as clear and sharp as snap-shots. In the dialogue, Mr. Hemingway maintains the tempo of his stories: exciting it is, intense, profane, and idiomatic, so real it might have been recorded on a dictaphone to be set down at leisure. This nimble athletic technique seems ideally suited to the short story...