Word: criticizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fool. If this is so, and Dr. Laird's observations are accurate, the intrepid spirit who dares to undergo four gruelling years of college life is taking an impressive gamble with the gods of chance. When he emerges from the strain of intellectual competition, or as one critic would prefer, the pernicious influences of a vapid university atmosphere, he may find himself a second Shakespeare, a second Dante, a second Leonardo; of his family may discover to their horror that all he can remember of his past life is a somewhat garbled version of "Mr.--is requested to call...
...fact, Aeolian Hall, Gotham's musical center has already been engaged for April 25, 1925. It was there that the Harvard Orchestra won' the unanimous applause of audience and critic last week, with Walter Piston'24 conducting the group for the last time alter a brilliant career of three years in the role of leader...
...nail jelly to a wall" as to try and negotiate with Colombia. The President did not foster the revolt, but he sympathized with it and helped it after it had broken out. From a utilitarian viewpoint, if from no other, his actions were entirely justified. Even so great a critic as Lord Bryce endorsed his policy...
When one considers that the Advisory Board was quite within its rights in rejecting the committee's recommendation, and that their decision was based partly on the representations of so noted a critic as Dr. Brander Matthews, the necessity for Professor Phelps' disclosures is not immediately apparent. They have been the occasion of much recriminatory comment, both undignified and quite purposeless, which might have been avoided by the maintenance of diplomatic and at the same time a thoroughly honest silence...
...generous critic, however, will see beneath the surface and discover that the Yale Seniors were actuated merely by that general restlessness which is manifest in every eastern university. At Princeton the impatience against tradition has reached such a height that not only the Seniors, but the Juniors and Sophomores have discarded regular clothes and are strolling about the campus in "beer suits" which are best described as pajamas made of canvas. And at Cambridge even John Harvard has shifted ground. The hostility toward study and the golden key is, therefore, probably not the only explanation for Yale's athletic prowess...