Word: impressive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present Senior class is the youngest Harvard group to have seen President Eliot at his last official University function. It is, therefore, fitting that this Memorial Issue contain some account of the celebration on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday. Not only did that day impress itself upon the minds of the students as a day of homage to the Grand Old Man of America, the man to whom they owed thanks for their great University, but also as the day on which the most splendid ovation in history was accorded an educator. It was then shown that the nation...
...national life without displaying more of "the hustling temper of modern America. He had not even, like his successor at Harvard, and like the heads of Yale and Princeton, made a reputation as a specialist in political science." But he had no need to do either of these to impress himself upon the people who met him or read him. As a president of a great university for over forty years and as a constant and fearless critic of national affairs, he was unknown to few leaders in American national or educational life...
...student in sociology at Columbia University, chosen by the Fisk trustees, after a long search, to fill the boots of Dr. Fayette Avery McKenzie, against whose alleged "Jim Crow" methods Fisk students struck last year (TIME, Feb. 16, 1925). To give President Jones a good send-off and to impress Fisk students with the permanence of the Fisk policy of a white president (often they have asked for a black), Chairman Paul Drennan Cravath* and his fellow trustees arranged the four days of ceremony and speechmaking, beginning with a football game on the campus and including the distinguished presence...
...didn't see Harvard lick Prale on Saturday afternoon, what a fool you are to go to dinner at the Broadbottoms before the Braffles. If you don't know the left end, and it's no use trying to impress Mazie Jackson, who has come all the way from Miss Bentley's School in Rhode Island to make Johnnie's life happy, and his Dad sore...
...some measure caught by Sudermann. The Repertory version catches even less of that spirit. Melo-drama vies with the ridiculous, approaching farce, where only dignity and religious feeling were intended. The mania for making the unreal appear real, for putting Hamlet in plus fours, can amuse but hardly impress. Perhaps there were wise-cracking merchants in Israel but we can't believe they had Irish-Mayfair-Swedish brogues...