Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present, under conditions which it seems to me are inherent to the segregation of the class, the first year men are under the control of a group of men who, except for the Freshman deans, have other interests which must come ahead of the Freshmen's welfare. They are tutors, or instructors, or graduates students, or professors first, and advisers to the Freshmen second. So long as a Freshman is not involved in disciplinary or scholastic difficulties they have no reason even for making his acquaintance...
...taste was more than usually sensitive, kept fine and discriminating by the restraint in which he held it. Indeed, all his senses, except sight, were acute. The wine he drank was the delicate unresinated Greek wine,--Corinthian, or Chian, or Cyprian; the amount of water to be mixed with each being carefully debated and employed. Each winter a cask was sent him from a special vineyard on the heights of Corinth, and occasioned something like a general rejoicing in Cambridge, so widely were its flavourous contents distributed...
...been tried and acquitted by a bourgeois jury in Germany on charges of subversive journalism; had been told in Paris to get out or bury himself in a provincial town; had been active in revolutionary talking parties; had met, been insanely jealous of, broken with most other red leaders?except the German banker, Friedrich Engels, his disciple and friend until death. His trustiest weapons were always flaming words and inflaming ideas. Already, before reaching England, he had proclaimed his memorable: "Proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world...
...permanently. Results were speedy and plainly visible. Hostility and suspicion vanished from among the families benefited by the school's work. They told their neighbors. Friendliness spread. Then it became evident that, from a musical as well as a social point of view, nothing permanent could be accomplished except by a national school of music, with the best instructors in the world, with no entrance qualification but merit. In 1923 such a school opened its doors -the Curtis Institute of Music, named in honor of Mrs. Bok's mother, consisting of three mansions donated by its founder...
...nearest rival, the Phillips Andover Academy scored its eighth straight victory in the Class A group of the Interscholastic track meet held on Soldiers Field last Saturday. Although the Bay State athletes failed to take a single first on the track, they scored in every event of the meet except the century...