Word: details
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...things were being done in this field of popular pantomime. "A Daughter of the Gods," now playing at the Majestic Theatre, is evidently a production trying to equal the record set by D. W. Griffith, but William Fox, despite the amount of money expended and the miraculous care of detail shown, will have to seek a better plot around which to spend his efforts before we can take the palm from "The Birth of the Nation" and present it to this new thing for Boston...
...substance one man says that perservance is a quality to be cultivated, and that wanderlust is merely a name for discontent and laziness; the other infers that too much detail is fatal to growth, and that the practice of doing unhabitual things is necessary for development. What is the solution of the riddle...
First of all, detail is merely a means to an end, and not an end in itself. It is the instrument which, properly adjusted, enables us to see and realize our dreams; but if the focus is destroyed or if the glass becomes indistinct through improper manipulation, the image fades, and only a confused blur is distinguishable. Use the instrument properly and it will aid you invaluably, abuse it, and it will blind you hopelessly...
...order has been received from the War Department relieving Captain A. W. Bjornstad, U. S. A., from his detail as Professor of Military Science and Tactics at the University. From now on Captain Bjornstad will serve on the commission of three officers, appointed' to carry out the War Department's regulations in regard to the Reserve Officer's Training Corps. Since he has been in the conditions here and the requirements of the University, it is to be expected that an agreement between the University authorities and the War Department in regard to the conduct of Military Science and Tactics...
Another new feature in policing will be started in the early part of February, when the acting chief will detail a sergeant to make the rounds of each school-house in the city, gather the children in the main hall and give an address, stating that the police are not enemies of the children but are working to aid them...