Word: expected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little did it impress them when they went about the work of confiscation that many inoffensive copies of the authentic Digest were carted to the police station. The other picture which the blue coats couldn't brook, they branded obscene. Of course it would be too much to expect honest and upright police commissioners to recognize the famous picture by Manet that has long hung in the Luxembourg. There may be some criticism of the Lampoon's taste in running these particular pictures. But everybody except the police will recognize that this issue was a satire, and a very clever...
...phases. Among the topics discussed will be the philosophy of nature, the philosophy of religion, and the theory of knowledge. Other such special subjects as logic, ethics, aesthetics, political philosophy, philosophy of law and the history of philosophy will also be brought up. The individual members expect to gain much from hearing authorities of world-wide reputations expound their particular fields of the general subject...
...beginning of each year we acquaint the workers with the general field of our work at a round table dinner. These experts tell the amateurs what they are to expect. We have several such dinners later in the fall, smaller and less general in their description of the work...
...Whenever possible we refuse to take College Freshmen, for we consider that the are not yet oriented. It is unfair to expect them to know what they want. "In all work where other organizations send us workers we are much more ready to aid them when we sense an intelligent handling of work on their part. All these means, employed in Boston, should work equally well in the Phillips Brooks House...
...part, and his portrayal of an absent minded professor was received with much enthusiasm. A long third act is made possible by brilliant dialogue and a comical drunken scene. At the end, the caste of five receives much applause from a well satisfied audience. The problem we expect to be worked out for us is left unsolved, yet we are not disappointed for the plot of the whole play is insignificant in comparison to the cleverness of the dialogue throughout...