Word: good
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entire principle and interest is to be spent within twenty-five years and none of the money is to go for scholastic research or for individual aid. The endowment will be used where it will show almost immediate and tangible results. Where others perhaps think for the good of the future in terms of dollars and the study of pure science, the Michigan senator prefers to deal with the human element, and to put it up to those who are benefited today to carry on tomorrow...
...championing the superior ideals of the American people and brought to infinite distress by contact with the awful depravity of Europe and its statesmen. Mr. Baker's film story is, in short, the oldest in the world. It is nothing less and nothing more than the conflict between good and evil, between spiritual conceptions and material appetites, between generosity and greed, between moral earnestness and underhand intrigue, between human sympathy and callous selfishness." Mr. Churchill also grills the whole U. S.: "The American populace fell as far short of their Chief in disinterested generosity to the world...
...Lenin. "In the cutting off of the lives of men and women no Asiatic conqueror, not Tamerlane, not Jenghiz Khan, can match his fame. . . . His purpose, to save the world: his method, to blow it up. . . . Apt at once to kill or to learn: . . . ruffianism and philanthropy: but a good husband; a gentle guest; happy, his biographers assure us, to wash up the dishes or dandle the baby; as mildly amused to stalk a capercailzie as to butcher an Emperor. . . . Lenin was the Grand Repudiator. He repudiated everything. He repudiated God, King, Country, morals, treaties, debts, rents, interest, the laws...
...strangest case histories in the literature of music. Composed in 1874, it was until last year known to the world only in a prettified version as unlike that of the original as if Murillo had painted over an El Greco, as if Tennyson had rewritten William Blake. Rimsky-Korsakov, good friend of Moussorgsky, composer of Sheherazade, La Coq d'Or and Sadko, professor and purist, had been the one to perform this doubtful service for Boris. He ironed out the harshnesses, modified the harmonies, polished the scoring. Moussorgsky's way of writing music, he said, "was the bumptiousness...
...Business Board of the CRIMSON will be offered on Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock, when a competition open only to members of the Class of 1932 will start with a meeting in the President's office in the CRIMSON building. All men in good standing are eligible...