Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...under cover until things are fixed up by Charlie Apted, guardian plenipotentiary of Harvard University and her treasures. As soon as he may show himself about the Square with some degree of immunity, at least from the federal officers, the CRIMSON promises to hold a public reception for the great Oriental dopester to introduce in person this new star on the Cambridge horizon to his vast public...
...house." He says, "It begins to look as if Harvard might win all of its games by undergraduate and general fan edict before a single game is played. It is a hysteria of optimism which is not at all uncommon in college football circles. We can recall oh-so-great Yale and surely unbeatable Dartmouth teams of early October, that were gallant, but often beaten outfits when late November rolled around...
...fashioned Harvard individualist, and an opponent of the 'undifferentiated efficiency' of the modern college and university. I believe that these institutions should be reserved for men who plan to enter the advanced professions, such as toaching. Harvard, among others, is taking a great many men for whom a college equation is an expensive, and useless, luxury...
...great part of this result is due to the effective work of Helen Strickland as the aunt who is her opponent. In a part evidently intended by the author to represent a typical New England spinster she exhales a frigidity and arrogant intolerance that makes it one of the most memorable characterizations of the season. Junior Blake as the youngest and incidentally illegitimate son who causes most of the complications of the plot and eventually brings it through right side up, handles a long part very capably, and the other members of the cast lend more than adequate support...
...Germany is deprived of the services of the man most largely responsible for bringing order out of chaos. In his acceptance of the Dawes plan, his guiding interest at Locarno, and his influence in obtaining Germany's entrance into the League of Nations he showed himself to be a great German patriot with a real understanding of the needs of a war torn Europe...