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Word: constant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...merely keeping up with the wanderings of myriad graduates were not enough, the office is beseiged by a constant stream of telephone calls and mail queries about Alumni, living or dead. "We average more than 30 phone calls a day," stated Miss Patton, who has been in charge of the Office since the fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumni Record Office Holds Tabs on 88,000 Grads Alive | 5/2/1947 | See Source »

...Symphony Orchestra; and gave a parental nod to the Harvard Glee Club. During their first years together, members vocalized as often as they scraped G-strings and on the first anniversary of the Sodality, "a number of appropriate songs were sung.... The greatest order and harmony were observed." But constant mixing of song and sonata had its drawbacks, and in 1858 the Glee Club broke away, leaving its parent organization to roam its scales alone, accompanied with such comments as "met and played like thunder...met, practiced, liquored and adjourned." Castigations of certain instruments were a common thing for "even...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...first prerequisite for a successful honor system is complete and constant support by the student body. A majority of Harvard undergraduates only want to get exams over with, and the process of doing this is quite immaterial. The kind of faith needed, in what to many is a trivial idea, is only possible in a smaller, more homogeneous student group. That is why many of the New England women's colleges can dispense with proctors. Of the men's colleges in which the undergraduate is put on his honor, Virginia is a closely-knit state college, while Princeton and Williams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Tacks | 4/26/1947 | See Source »

Whether Evans himself comes off so well beside his refurbished cast is a debatable point. In the incomparable conversational scenes he carries the counterpoint off very well, the satiric and comic lines coming through especially effectively. In the soliloquies, however, the incredible monotony of Evans' style, his constant reliance on purely vocal effects rather than any real acting techniqque, and the annoyingly false diction which leads him to pronounce words like "force" as "fawwwce" all begin to annoy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 4/23/1947 | See Source »

...against Navy, the teams are extremely evenly matched, both losing to the men from Annapolis by the identical margin. The Green attack, led by former all-American Merriam, is considered to be slightly better than anything Harvard has shown. However, high scoring Varsity captain Jay Hurley will be a constant Crimson threat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse Ten Will Meet Dartmouth In League Opener | 4/18/1947 | See Source »

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