Word: harshness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gentlemen, my invariable rule is to lower the grade of any man whom I interview about his examination." The professor beamed benevolently. "My assist ants in the course, I find, are less, shall we say, ha ha, harsh. So that if anyone cares to talk with them in the lower corridor of Sever between 5.30 and 6.45 next Saturday afternoon, he will find them not only cordial but disinterested...
...degree, must give the public what it wants. Perhaps Bonfils and Tammen erred in the degree, but taking the whole thing by and large Denver rather than the publishers is responsible for the Denver Post. Denver apparently since the gold rush days, has liked its meat raw. . . . Many harsh things have been said about Bonfils and Tammen. Maybe TIME is broad enough and can spare the space to print the estimate of one man who through many years of association believes he got to know the real Bonfils and Tammen. I refer to a letter I wrote to Bonfils when...
...Jazz is nothing but a march tune, something used more than 2000 years ago, with occasional syncopations thrown in, played on unpleasant instruments, as insipid saxaphone, harsh trombones and trumpets, and ratting drums," was the opinion of Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor of the Symphony concerts in Boston this week, as he addressed a group of newspapermen in his suite in the Ritz Carlton...
...every officer of the Navy, a Cadillac, a Packard, or a Rolls-Royce automobile. Everyone knows that such an idea is foreign to that which would be expressed by me. I do not know who did this. . . ." The House laughed. If ever the Navy had a harsh critic, he is James V. McClintic. It was voted to correct the record to show that Mr. McClintic was not responsible for some jokester's practical prank. Alone among the legislators to protest that the House should investigate such time-wasting buffoonery, was Thomas Lindsay Blanton, Texas Democrat. No investigation was ordered...
Students who feel the reins of faculty supervision somewhat harsh and undemocratic, who stand in dread of the possibility of compulsory chapel, and who protest loudly at the meager allowance of cuts afforded by the department heads, might sleep a little easier and enjoy life a little more thoroughly after reading a few excerpts from the Harvard College regulations of 1734. Some of the most interesting--when viewed from this distant perspective--follow...