Word: distant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Says Author Faÿ: "The secret of Franklin was his memory and his shrewd cleverness. It was easy for him to recall the slightest detail of even distant events, and he had a plan for everything." In spite of his careful creed of moderation, Ben was "cheerful and fond of good living, a hearty drinker and a good story teller." Also, though Author Faÿ does not labor the point, Ben had little saintliness in his blood: in 1785 he had a great-grandson, the illegitimate son of the illegitimate son of his illegitimate son. Author Faÿ, ironic...
Students such as myself, who have classes during all three of the hours when the polling places were open, have no great amount of time free during the period. If one of the courses meets at a distant point such as Mallinckrodt, there is but a minute or two which could be spared for voting. Yet the crowd around the tables in Sever and Harvard Halls was so thick that no one without plenty of time on his hands could attack it, with any hope of both voting and attending his class. It would not have been hard to have...
Movies of the celebrated class of 1899 in action will be shown at the annual class dinner at the Harvard Club on December 11 at 6.30 0'clock. Alumni of this class from distant points are expected to be present, many of them bringing their sons as guests. The late Percy Haughton, and Mayor Nichols were both members of this class. H. H. Fish is treasurer and Arthur Adams secretary of the class...
...Smilovits, second violin, Sandor Roth, viola, Imre Hartman, 'cello. They played in the Budapest Royal Opera until the outbreak of the 1919 Revolution when they retired to a distant Hungarian village, devoted themselves for two years to the cult of chamber music. Now the Lener is one of the world's first string organizations. In Manhattan last fortnight its tender, lush playing of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven won noisy approval from the audience, superlatives from critics; made recent performances by the London String Quartet seem over-fastidious, bloodless by comparison. The Roth Quartet, however, also from Budapest, remains for most...
Once in a not too distant past Harvard did look favorably upon the theatrical arts. This is demonstrable by the fact that the present American stage is largely controlled by former members of the Forty Seven Workshop. The ante-dated conservative atmosphere which the teaching of the drama has now assumed at Harvard indicates that its present predominance in the theatre can not help but be short lived...