Word: higher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opening night left in it. There it will not create a sensation but it will certainly carry on an old tradition before audiences which like its wares. Were it for its beautiful girls alone it would be played before capacity audiences. While Ziegfeld has his production on a higher plane of humor he certainly will have to look to the laurels of his "glorified" girls. After all, why are the "Follies" so popular if not because of its feminine attractions...
...though the industry of the undergraduate seems proclaimed in these facts, it does not necessarily follow that the midyear marks will show a generally higher average. Admitting that most of the tests have laid a distinct emphasis on the Reading Period assignments, there seems to be an almost unanimous sentiment among students that these assignments were often too heavy, and that as a result, the midyear examination found the student either insufficiently read or ill-reviewed on the work which preceded the Christmas recess...
...system somewhat similar to the one that is now in use at Yale University. The students would be charged an initial payment of $20 for the fall months and an additional green fee each month. For students who had rather play in the Spring the fee would be somewhat higher...
...magnitude of the political catastrophe resulting from the standardization of the press may be overdrawn, there is another more optimistic view of the situation. The general level of a universal standard for the national press would be kept higher by pressure of public opinion than the plane where much local journalism stands today. It is inconceivable that the tabloid sensationalism that washes down so many breakfasts now, or the pink and purple extravaganzas of Mr. Hearst should ever set the style for a nationwide press such as Mr. Villard imagines. If amalgamation will gloss over with a coat of standardized...
...enter into a rhapsody over "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" merely because it is highly commended by those who ought to know and not because it seems to him an extremely well written book is an unfortunate example of plagiarism. The Algonquin circle may like it; the higher literati may like it; but if this particular book or any other book does not appeal to the individual young man his is the unpleasant task of exhibiting the undergraduate thumbs down. His is the privilege of citing what he as a university student does or does not like...