Word: grayness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undergraduate the system opens opportunities for currying parental approval unequalled even by the palmy first grade days when Mamma beamed her joy over the coveted "Ex" in deportment: No matter how gray the skies may hang over such courses as Philosophy A or Evolution 6, the mediocre but conscientious Tufts student can now know that the brightest of silver linings beams out from the old report card with an A in Conventional Religion 1. It is better perhaps not to consider the fate of the always possible naughty boy who by a miscalculation or the failure of the alarm clock...
Practically all the clamor was for increased duties. Chester H. Gray, chief lobbyist of the American Farm Bureau Federation, called for general upward revisions averaging 100% higher than present rates on agricultural commodities. The argument, in effect, was: "We want these rates?because we want them." Few if any witnesses paused long enough on the stand to give reasons, to detail the difficulties of foreign competition, comparative costs of production. The fanner's attitude was that he was entitled to these increases by virtue of his vote for Herbert Hoover and that technical explanations were nonessential...
...George Santayana distinguishes art as an extension of utilitarian practices into the realm where utility is forgotten and pleasure begins. Thus, a tribal dance pleading for the gift of rain is not art, whereas a ballet, tripped for its own sake, may be. In Manhattan, last week Sculptor George Gray Barnard defined art as the creations of those who possess the "Great...
James Barr Ames (1846-1910) became assistant professor of Law in 1873. Professor in 1877, Bussey Professor in 1879, and Dane Professor in 1903. In 1895 he succeeded Langdell as Dean. The time when he with Gray and Thayer were teaching at the school under Langdell is reckoned as another great period in the school's history...
John Chipman Gray (1839-1915) was in point of time the first of the great teachers who made the reputation of the school under Langdell and Ames. He taught in the school for 43 years. 41 of them consecutively. Beginning as a lecturer in 1869, in 1875 he became Story Professor, and was Royall Professor from 1883 to 1913. He was the leading authority on the law of real property of his generation, and his books on "The Rule Against Perpetuities", and on "Restraints on the Alienation of Property", are among the classics...