Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Asked to comment on the Claverly robbery, Mr. Apted, Superintendent of Caretakers, issued the following statement: "During the morning of March 14, an unauthorized visitor entered various rooms in Claverly Hall without invitation. This being possible only through the negligence of the tenants, who left their doors unlocked. In consequence of the visit, numerous occupants of the building are now minus sums of money from 30 cents upwards." He laid especial emphasis on the fact that the robbery could never have taken place if the doors had been locked. He also pointed out that the only way to prevent...
...stream of visitors who come to spend a few brief-hours in the vicinity of Harvard Yard, and then pass on their critical way leaving burning comment behind them, it is unusual to find a man with the geniality of the Reverend Vivian T. Pomeroy, who was this week's speaker at Appleton Chapel. Mr. Pomeroy fears that he is not fully equipped to comment on University affairs, which places him at once among the immortal few who, like Socrates, know their own limitations...
...Pomeroy has mentioned the comment of an American who said that the main difference between the United States and England was that in this country a "dummy" was preferred to a "freak". If in this case a "dummy" means one of a not too intelligent, standardized group, and a "freak" means an individual who rises above the mass because of his peculiar talents, the indictment must stand unanswered. The encouragement of individual genius at the expense of quantity production, particularly in the American university, is not one of the nation's virtues. In fact it may fairly he said that...
...think they are far wrong," was Coach Steven's comment when a CRIMSON reporter informed him that Manager F. T. Baldwin '24 had predicted the ice in the Charles would go out Thursday, and that Coach Haines had prophesied the crews would be on the water by the end of the week. "It depends a lot on the kind of weather we have tomorrow. I am planning to have crews on the water then, but you never can tell when ice will...
...this is all admirable; it is the comment of an intelligent mind, and above all it displays a typically Gallic politeness toward those whose day of conquest is generally considered past; but when the savant undertakes to award prizes to those writers who mention heroines of notably advanced ages, he may fairly be suspected of harboring somewhere in the depths of his soul a sour-grapes complex, Balzac, for example, receives the Prix d'Excellence for six heroines adored anywhere between forty and forty-seven, and for one beloved at fifty-five. Any author who has a candidate over thirty...