Word: doubtful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...critics have the strength of mind not to call him) has the best of it. We have Sir Herbert in two lights-professional and personal. Mr. Seymour reviews "Henry VIII" with the assurance and occasionally with the overflowing florescence of Mr. H. T. Parker of the Transcript. Sometimes we doubt his phrases, "a rambling story-play of no real central fulcrum"; sometimes his judgement, "in the speech of farewell he achieves the superlative work of genius"; sometimes his grammar, "it all seems to just miss being superb." Yet on the whole Mr. Seymour writes with sincerity and apprehension...
...deserves a better expression. Mr. Allinson contributes to the campaign literature of the day, recently dignified (or chinafied, as many have it), by the pen of Dr. Eliot, a glowing eulogium on Woodrow Wilson, "greater chieftain of the higher mind." With this qualifying phrase many Republicans will no doubt agree; the Presidential mind at present is so high that Germany and Mexico have quite lost sight of it. Mr. Snow's "Post Mortem" is rather gruesome stuff, but it exemplifies the correct field for free verse...
...with scholarship and its bearing on proficiency in Latin or football is not quite clear. Yet in a sense plumbing is a classical theme; the pipes, by which the water was conducted through the Roman baths were early examples of the plumber's art and no doubt a comprehensive academic dissertation on the subject would trace their relation to the modern bath...
...significant thing, no doubt, is the offer of this sort of academic reward by America's greatest University. It involves a far departure from John Harvard's ideal of college training and implies a suggestive concession to utilitarian ideas of education. It is the fatal first step? Will there yet be regular courses in plumbing at Harvard and post graduate instruction in gas-fitting? Will retired bathtub manufacturers endow professorships there and steel-makers and motor car manufacturers found technical schools and establish scholarships in their lines? There are more things in a modern college education than were once dreamed...
Owing to an ambiguous phrase in the club agreement it has been a matter of doubt whether the first day on which a Sophomore could be elected to a club was Monday, October 16, or Monday, October 23. The Graduate Advisory Committee on the club agreement has ruled that the date of election shall be Monday, October 23. The agreement permits the election of Sophomores the fourth Monday of the College year, which has been interpreted by the Graduate Committee to mean the fourth Monday of College work. The wording of the phrase in question is as follows...