Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...failure or near-failure in college becomes a success in after life. Some men realize this, but, unfortunately, delude themselves into thinking that they will be the exceptions, when the chances are several hundred to one that their records after colleges will be like their records in college, flat, undistinguished C's. While Phi Beta Kappa keys and cum laude degrees and honorary scholarships are no sure pass-ports to prosperity, they are, without question fairly accurate promises of future success. Scores of cases could be adduced to prove it in the history of Harvard graduates alone. Bearing this...
Mozart, Symphony in E-flat...
...imperfect sense of idiom. But such annoyances are perhaps only inevitable growing pains, and they do not cancel one's satisfaction in such evidences of intellectual activity as Mr. Seldes's eassy undoubtedly presents. The only piece of verse in the number, Mr. Greene's "The Heritage," is flat and prosaic, but has not the clearness of good prose. The editorial on "Undergraduate Literature" is sensible; but the Board should prohibit the use of the phrase "in the final analysis" from in at least every second issue...
Lachner.--March in B-flat...
Guilmant.--Elevation in A-flat...