Word: finer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What is it that makes Shakespeare great? Why is the original of the Canterbury Tales finer poetry than Dryden's translation? What differentiates genius from mediocrity? These are subtleties that cannot be expressed in so many words, in any course. Literature is not yet an exact science. But all that can be taught is being taught now in such courses as English 41 and 28, which deal not only with facts (as the writer seems to think) but with the theories of style, taste and method. What they teach is an intelligent critical attitude, which, applied to the actual reading...
...once Mr. Monteux's genius as program-maker seemed to desert him, when, yesterday afternoon, he piled Franck upon Franck to the extent of boredom. The hundredth anniversary of Franck's birth must, I suppose, be celebrated in some way; it would seem however, as if a finer impression of Franck's genius would result from a program in which he was not so overworked...
...expense, perhaps, of some of the beauty of the second movement. Four years ago, when the symphony was last heard in Boston, the tempo of this second movement was slower, therein evidently different from the composer's conception (the movement is marked allegretto), but, it seemed, richer and finer. The beauty of that movement can afford to be lingered over. Playing it up to the time indicated, Mr. Monteux kept close to the composer and pleased his audience. To some however, something lacked...
...Nothing finer in the combining of all theatre arts has been seen in Boston this year than the impressive "Book of Job" done by Stuart Walker and his company and brought here under the auspices of the Wellesley Club of Boston. The play is being repeated in a series of daytime performances; the first and second yesterday and Monday; today's at the Plymouth Theatre at 3, and at the Wilbur again on Friday at 3 and Saturday morning at 10.30. The Wellesley Endowment Fund should profit heavily as its reward in giving the city this rare opportunity...
Tonight at 7.30 Coach H. H. Haines will address a meeting of all Freshman oarsmen in Smith Halls Common Room. This meeting is one of the most important of the 1926 fall season, both for purposes of organization and of instruction in the finer principles of rowing. All men should bring their "quiz-cards...