Word: jested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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James Russell Lowell in jest once referred to Harvard as "the Muses' factory"; in a recent article Professor Grant Showerman of the University of Wisconsin laments that the term is no longer a joke. The American university of today "turns out" several hundred graduates annually, each guaranteed at so many credits and properly tagged with a sheepskin label. State efficiency experts formulate results upon the basis of the unit-hour,--defined as one hour of instruction for one semester by one professor to one student oblivious of the fact that the only unit in intellectual life...
...scenic design at Reinhardt's Theatre. Since returning to America, he has designed scenery and costumes for the Russian Ballet, "Caliban," Claire Kummer's comedy "Good Gracious, Annabel," and "A Successful Calamity," with William Gillette. Mr. Jones designed the scenery for John Barrymore's last three successes: "Redemption." "The Jest," and "Richard the Third," and one of his latest works is that in the new Ben Ami play produced by Arthur Hopkins. Because they did not attain his ideal, Mr. Jones has destroyed most of his models of stage settings recently exhibited in New York, where he has also lectured...