Word: known
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...girl whom Mark Twain saw as through the eyes of an amiable, schoolgirlish companion, and whom Bernard Shaw created as a healthy, quick-witted English girl of the fox-hunting type, a person whom the spectator recognizes as someone revealed for the first time, yet who has always been known to everybody. She is answering her judges at a moment when she is forced to renounce either her life or her faith...
...Stratton is well known as one of the country's leading fundamentalists and has been in the public eye frequently During the late presidential campaign he challenged Ex-Governor Smith to a debate on the question of whether a Catholic was disqualified for the presidency...
...everyone will agree that since its beginnings, the theatre has had for its main object, that of providing entertainment, whether serious or light. The stage has developed much art, but its object has always been entertainment. There has arisen beside the old comedy and tragedy another form of entertainment known as the musical comedy which has invaded the modern stage to such an extent that it is considered by many to be an integral part of the drama. Is it not consistent with the aims of the Harvard Dramatic Club many of whose members will adopt the stage...
...college graduate of the mauve decade whose four college years taught him the art of a polished dependence upon tradition must have shuddered last evening when he opened his Transcript to the page which bears the clippings headed School and College. Underneath a large cut of a well-known college president there ran a bold face paragraph which mixed up college men and Pullman smoking compartments with disquieting innuendo. Readers of the more widely circulated journals may be interested to know that Mr. Nielson finds that college men lose all marks of their special training after ten to fifteen years...
...stated that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of the College had just voted that a grade of 70 percent in the admission examination in Advanced German or French, known on College Board Examinations as German or French cp 4, be accepted in satisfaction of the reading knowledge requirements in those languages. This new ruling, following immediately upon the Faculty decision of last year to count advanced German or French toward entrance requirement, will permit students to pass off their requirement without having to take one of the special examinations or a half-course in either German or French...