Word: glads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is nothing in the least mawkish or sentimental about the picture or the Dionnes. They are left to act as entirely natural as possible and no attempt is made, we are glad to record, to wring sighs and giggles from the audience...
...point, as he says, where we shall be concerned with "teaching less and less but at the same time providing a better and better education." Progress to this end cannot be instantaneous. It will take at least a generation to win the goal. But we can all be glad that so eminent a scientist as James B. Conant, who understands today's demands for scholarly specialization as well as anyone can, likewise sees the need of new synthesis, new simplification and generalization in America's higher education. He is prepared to fight for these gains, and in such effort...
24th. Comes--to the Tower very betimes to wake me, and I not too glad to see him for he has wagered me a fine little sum that he can rise, run a mile and get me up before 7 for 33 consecutive mornings...
President and Mrs. Conant will be at home and glad to see all students in the University, at the President's House, 16 Quincy Street, tomorrow afternoon, from four until six o'clock...
Thence, by and by, I back with--who asks me to lunch at Leverett House and I was glad to go. I learn there be much festivity there on Friday night and I know it will be merry, but, I think, I to hear President Conant's address at Sander's Theatre instead...