Word: content
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nineties. It is true that students are now vitally concerned with all they do and all that is done to them. No longer are they accepting rules, regulations, customs, or traditions, on faith. Reflecting the analytical tendencies of the professional, scientific, and literary man, the undergraduates are no longer content with anything until it is proved correct by analysis. There is nothing yet to show that this tendency is beneficial to the community. It cannot be said certainly that the many educational innovations of the past few years would not have taken place just the same if the students...
...from under the door, fortunately requires only the barest modicum of acumen to realize that "Merry Merry" is far above and beyond the humdrum level of musical comedy average. In this day of striving for the "bigger and better," it is something of a relief to discover a producer content to concentrate on the "better" at the expense of the "bigger." "Merry Merry" is of the intimate, clubby musical comedy genre made popular by its predecessors, "Little Jessie James" and "My Girl." The cast is so small that we all feel pretty well acquainted by the middle of the first...
...content. Luther Burbank, plant wizard, received Death at 77 without any last minute decision to poultice his scientific philosophy, of life with hope for an after life. They conducted his funeral as he had wished, quietly, privately, with no religious rites - and quoted over him his own words about reaching life's end: "If it has been a good life it has been sufficient. There is no need for another. Once here and gone the human life has served its purpose...
...Ship. Catholic passengers on North German Lloyd vessels last week prayed, with content and quietude unusual aboard ship, before altars permanently built in. They knew too that Herr Direktor Adolf Stadtlander of the line had told His Holiness of this convenience for voyaging Catholic immigrants and church missions, had indicated that his was the only line so permanently equipped, had received the Apostolic blessing for the ventures of the North German Lloyd...
...Harvard have little to chagrin them in the more sensational sentiments of their supposedly more radical and more progressive contemporaries. The plan which Dr. Meiklejohn suggests is, in a sense, a part of the proposed, and in some respects, of the already functioning Harvard system That Harvard is content to allow lectures to continue while she undertakes the tutorial policy is characteristic, and in that sense, good. Not possessed of any sanguine faith in the impossible, but ready to conform to the needs of the passing years in so far as those needs do not encroach upon her function...