Word: excels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tutorial system as conducted at Harvard. The present incentive to attain Honors and Distinction is undoubtedly responsible for the increase in likely candidates for Phi Beta Kappa. Wheather it is the familiar watch chain symbol or the magic, "cum," "magna" or "summa," which attracts undergraduates to excel in such a secondary commodity as book learning is not important. The results are the same, and the urge inspired by the same ideals. At any rate Phi Beta Kappa finds itself in the rather pleasant position of having a wealth of candidates when practically every other activity in the College uses every...
...penalties exacted by the law for misdoings excel in rigor that demanded by the public of those who have committed the crime of becoming famous. Ridden through the city in an open car in the rain, surrounded by vociferous mobs whenever they dared show their faces, and finally forced to escape a throng of their well-wishers by a service elevator, the aviators now visiting Boston will have memories of a trip that was exciting if not always comfortable. Not that theirs is an exceptional case, for the past year has given the public many victims, but even an "annus...
...Taft, evolve into an eminent educator. Last year he took Taft School out of his own pocketbook, gave it to a self-perpetuating board of trustees. He continued to serve as headmaster. His boys have a golf course and a fine football field, but they are more likely to excel in Latin and things musical. They lack adequate housing. So last week began a campaign to raise $2,000,000, more than half of which will be used for new buildings. Edward Stephen Harkness, Manhattan financier, whose family has given millions to Yale, fired the opening gun of the Taft...
...York Herald-Tribune. Cooks attended this course-private cooks from Manhattan, private cooks from out-of-own,*private cooks fresh from Germany & Hungary whose new mis-resses had ruled that they needed further drill. Housewives too attended-housewives of all grades, good ones who wished to excel, doubtful ones who wished to pass muster. They heard lectures in the New York City Town Hall (capacity 1,500). Miss Florence Brobeck supervised the cooks & housewives. She it is who prints each Sunday good advice on recipes, household appliances, marketing information, dietetics & child feeding, decorating & furnishing, restaurant service...
...company of the Opera Comique (Paris) and the orchestra of the Paris Conservatory responded with evening after evening of inimitable entertainment? Pelleas and Melisande, played, acted and sung as never before; Cesar Franck's "Variations Symphoniques" executed by masterly Alfred Cortot; the Dresden Opera Company tilting friendliwise to excel their French friends. . . . It was a love feast as well as a music fest. And between rare performances the delegates might wander, as tourists may for weeks to come, among exhibits ranging from furniture polish to autographed manuscripts of Mozart's Magic Flute and Beethoven's "Seventh Symphony...