Word: depths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advantages of some other methods of treatment. The French epic has been dormant since Voltaire's Henriade; and the American epic is still unborn; this leaves the opera as the logical form for such a subject. Here, as nowhere else, could the whole breadth and depth of Prohibition be revealed. Nothing would be more effective than a chorus of Rotarians in derbies, rolling forth grandiose melodies reeking with noble sentiments; or the orchestral blare as Prohibition, garbed in black, rushes full tilt at the lurid figure of the Demon Rum; or the carrying off of the latter's corpse...
...student who does as much or little other work in the course as he wishes, a custom of old and honorable standing at Harvard, is gaining in identity when it is given official status at Columbia. The desire of Harvard men for breadth in culture, as well as depth, is what has given the "Student Vagabond" position in the columns of the CRIMSON. His presence has made it possible in a degree to correlate the studies in different fields, to fit the art, the music and the literature of a period into a complementary whole, rather than one that might...
...professional school being counted towards the degrees both of that school and of the college. We have never adopted that plan here, because the last two years in college, and most of all the last year, far exceed the earlier ones in value for giving breadth and depth of intellectual power...
...annual report of a president of any American university is always worth the reading by graduates of that particular institution, and reports of Harvard Presidents have set a tradition for broadness, depth, and soundness that has made their yearly appearance an event awaited eagerly by all men, of whatever college, interested in the theory and practise of modern higher education...
...this end, for in her obvious desire to be forceful, Fannie Hurst is led into grotesqueries, of which one example should suffice, though it does not explain. When the author refers to the Thanksgiving turkey as a "Mucilaginous miscellany of stuffed gobbler" one feels slightly out of one's depth. Which is about the way one feels about the whole book...