Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recollect there is only one person in Cambridge who has realized this possibility. Copey has this unique distinction. Each year he "does something for the Freshmen," but each year he is content to entertain them without feeling that he will let an opportunity go by, if he refrains from advising them...
...reduce and limit navies, in every way practical without losing sight of the ideal, has set minds at rest and brought a wave of optimism which ought to be strong enough of itself to assure ultimate success. Now that the nation sees the possibilities, it will not be content with half-way measures...
...Boheme", one of Puccini's greatest masterpieces, sung far too seldom on this side of the water, and more recently "La Forza del Destino" by Verdi, an unusual product, which has only been sung twice in Boston. The latter in particular shows that the company is not content to tread the ordinary paths of operatic routine. Discarded compositions of other days that have merit in them, they seem willing to bring to light, and this revival of Verdi's early effort, has great value, particularly to the student of music...
...invitation to Freshmen to attend a special service at Appleton Chapel this evening recalls, by the way of contrast, the time not many years past when men entering college were greeted by an invitation similar in content but couched in no uncertain terms, and brooking no refusal; and when no choir's "selections chosen especially for the occasion" were held out as a mildly alluring bait. Since those days we have enjoyed a freedom still unknown in many colleges. As a result some attend Chapel occasionally, a few with regularity...
Indeed the Djinn of the Lamp is, we suspect, none other than Hard Work. Not content with merely duplicating the efforts of past years, the board has added new features which we are told will greatly increase the usefulness of the volume. Although, to quote the old proverb, "There is many a slip twixt the out and the lip", we are confident that the "Register" has positively taken a new lease on life...