Word: latter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seems, for instance, that the remarks concerning courses in the English Department were founded on a theory that is at least debatable. A comparison of your writer's views on English 41 and Comparative Literature 6 is illuminating. The latter receives a very thorough "roasting" while Mr. Perry's course evokes nothing but praise. This we learn is because English 4d succeeds in "making delight in literature contagious." Undoubtedly it does, for when a man is concentrating in literature (as, I think, Dr. Magoun has a right to believe that most of his students are), has not the instructor...
Opening day enrolment at the Law School gives 1,191 students, as compared with 1,104 last year, and includes a first year class of 555, whereas in September, 1924, the figure for the latter...
...actor, is the week's first personality. Mr. Coward is only 25. He will have, before the season shuts up for the summer, five produced plays in town?Still Life (called Hay Fever in London), Easy Virtue, Fallen Angels, The Vortex and most of Chariot's Revue. In the latter will be sung his famous lyric, "We Must All Be Very Kind to Aunty Jessie...
...power of their educational projects. His brisk, confident speech, the quick movements of his chunky body, the very sheen of his black hair and the flashing smile on his wide mouth, gave an impression of prime mental masculinity that has attracted colleagues and stimulated faltering students. "Here," say the latter, "is a man who makes molehills of mountains. He is swift, sure, knows what is wanted. Though warmhearted, he is cold-blooded toward examinations. He spots them, stabs them. I am a fool, but he will, for a deserved sum, equip me for this coming crisis...
...commenting on his wage-earning to Mr. E. E. Keevin, director of the Roosevelt Newsboys' Association, who strongly endorsed the candidacy of the Dorchester boy, the latter wrote as follows...