Word: fined
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Whoever reads college periodicals seriously must note a return of the Monthly to its traditional function as an aesthetic and dilettante free-lance, reverting from the broader and more serious policy of recent years. The December number leaves an impression of fine skein, filmy, evanescent. One looks in vain for substance. The featured interview with Venizelos may have been intended for thought, but the style of Tartarin de Tarascon hardly enhances the glory that was, and is not, Greece...
...honor list is smaller than usual this year because it is made up on a stricter basis, requiring an average of B in all the entrance examinations. The winning of the trophy for the second time therefore not only shows marked ability in the student but is a fine record for the school...
Good for Harvard; fine for Harvard, Universities for the most part use up all their time in training lawyers and doctors and preachers and editors and "publicists" and similar classes of useful but not overly productive citizens. If Harvard is really teaching policemen to be better policemen, and will from time to time add branches wherein carpenters are taught to be better carpenters, farmers better farmers, blacksmiths better blacksmiths, tailors better tailors, fishermen better fishermen--if so be Harvard has entered upon a career of wider usefulness to those who really produce the bread and butter which all the people...