Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spirit of emulation, as President Lowell points out in his last annual report, should help to accomplish this--the desire of each "house" to achieve intellectual and athletic distinction in rivalry with its fellows. But this will not suffice, in our judgment, unless as soon as possible after the "houses" have been established and the first few allotments made the faculty allows the students themselves every reasonable freedom in choosing to which groups they will adhere. Nothing so strongly persuades a human being to "brighten the corner" where he is as the fact that he picked it. --New York Herald...
Three years ago the CRIMSON announced the presentation of a cup to be awarded under certain conditions to the preparatory school editing the best newspaper. Interested in promoting the publication of accurate and timely news in a methodical manner, it has believed that a prize of this kind would help to stimulate a keener sense of responsibility as well as of competition...
...soon appears that the wife of the French ambassador has some incriminating letters from her husband's subordinate, the attache, that make the task of this young man more than ordinarily difficult and provide an abundance of embarrassing situations. Epigrams on the nature of virtue, love, and related matters help keep the dialog from sagging after a rather lame beginning, and there is some room for satire of a rather superior brand on the diplomatic profession...
...company has no weak points and all the characters help in maintaining the frothy spirit of the play. Mary Nash, in the part of Manuela, coos and poses most alluringly in her tryst with Gaston in what she calls the "seductive surroundings" of his office, and furnishes one of the high spots of the show when she appears in some pyjamas attributed to Pizarro. Melvyn Douglas, playing opposite her, does a thoroughly capable job, and Violet Kemble Cooper, in the role of his scorned nemesis, makes the most of a less productive part. Ferdinand Gottschalk and Henry Stephenson give...
...decided he should get into aviation and he did. He made contact with Vincent J. Burnelli, 34, Texas-born plane designer, who calculated that he could design a monoplane's fuselage so that it would help in the flying lift...