Word: devotedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The prosperous people of the world who have obtained positions of prominence without benefit of college have always been scornful of the value of education. In the popular mind, students spend their days in a kind of lotus-eating existence devoted to the pleasures and dissipations of the campus, with...
The small, snug Berlin flat of Sinclair Lewis was devoted, for the afternoon, to cocktails, beer and tea. The guests, including famed Rosamond (The Miracle) Pinchot, toasted diversely in all three beverages a petite and pretty black-haired woman who would soon be off adventurously to Moscow. She was Dorothy...
Seven rooms of the print department will be devoted to the Durers, which will be arranged, chronologically and will consist of all the engravings and etchings, about 150 woodcuts, and about 100 facsimiles of drawings. The facsimiles are being hung with the prints to which they are related.
Harvard is blessed with advantages that make it especially attractive to the musically inclined student. The part of the faculty devoted to this subject is gifted: the Glee Club, the University Orchestra, and the Instrumental Clubs depend on student talent: the Music Building furnishes accommodations: the Boston Symphony Orchestra and...
Anyone who has interested himself in a sane appraisal of the results of the Reading Period will discover little that is new in the report with the possible exception of the authoritative statistics. Almost too much has been said and written about the success of the experiment in connection with...