Word: dismally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is something very ugly in the possibility of a young man's coming to Cambridge, and while here sleeping and studying alone in a cheerless lodging, eating alone in a dismal restaurant, feeling himself unknown, and so alone in his lectures, his chapel, and his recreations, and not even having the privilege of seeing his administrative officers who know most of his record without haying to explain to them at each visit who he is and what he is, before they can be made to remember that he is a living, hoping, or despairing part of Harvard College...
...Pitkin was startled by this showing. So he turned to what he considered another pole of culture, to sophisticated college students, to the unkempt, dizzy bohemians of Greenwich Village. He even had himself admitted to the stuffy interiors of theatres. Here among the scorned of the show world, in dismal surroundings, he found the best record of all. True, none knew all Ten Commandments. Yet one knew nine, two knew eight. Their average was 7.1 Commandments each...
...college undergraduate apparently has an infinite capacity for doing more work. The class of 1928 provides an impressive demonstration of this new principle of education. Entering Harvard under a scholastic burden almost double that of any of its predecessors, harassed by the dismal prognostications of worried alumni, it has proceeded not only to match the old standard but to establish a new and higher one. The class of 1928 in almost every respect proved itself in the tables of Dean Greenough superior to the class...
...American college debating has been for some years, by the confession of its own devotees, quite dour and dismal. Should it become now a laughing-stock? Harvard, Yale and Princeton have undertaken to move it in this direction. The crucial topic set for their latest triangular wrangling--"Resolved, that education is the curse of the present age" and they chose with chuckles aforethought. They expressly intended to give light discussion wide play in the ensuing debate, and so to invite the attendance of a larger audience, tempted by an opportunity not only to think but to smile...
...when he came down groggy with soot and exertion. Penniless at 21, he married an American girl (Blanche Hawley), came to the U. S., painted scenery in the Astor Theatre. In 1906-07, three Manhattan publishers turned down The Broad Highway, most of which was written in a dismal, rat-run studio on Tenth Ave. He nearly burned it. Over 600,000 copies have been sold since an English firm took it in 1908. Beltane the Smith, The Amateur Gentleman and a dozen others are known wherever stories are read. Chunky, genial, teeming with tales, Jeffery Farnol is the modern...