Word: least
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...kaleidoscopic and romantic spectacle as he will ever see, an event as representative of one side of Harvard life as the Commencement exercises are of another. Every true son of Harvard will apportion his interest and sentiment between the two days, not necessarily with absolute equality but at least with a certain magnanimity and tolerance...
Harvard is so cosely bound to the past by a thousand ties that it may truthfully be said that the undergraduate, or the graduate as well, who is not at least acquainted with its history and rich traditional background, is lacking in a fundamental knowledge if not a thorough appreciation of the College. Nothing drives this home more forcibly than the annual Class Day. To the casual observer it might appear merely another day of meaningless jubilation and glamorous festivity, superficial and transitory. To the initiated, to those who can penetrate beneath the gay laughter, the forced smiles, the whirl...
Finally the Dictator spiked rumors that he plans to retire, and stated that he would advise King Alfonso XIII to leave the present Dictature unchanged in office for at least two years...
...became a composer after a brief, uproarious and distinguished career as a conductor; wrote tone poems which, in the U. S. at least, remain his most popular work. Of these, Don Juan is perhaps the most celebrated; Till Eulenspiegels Merry Pranks (one of the few genuinely comic bits of music ever created) frames in melody the "owl-glass" legends of a fantastic buffoon who once annoyed staunch German burghers; Death and Transfiguration is a profoundly magnificent effort to encompass a theme more holy than most which have engaged its author's attention...
Suppose the Democratic nominee should turn out to be a really first rate fisherman. At least, Americans would be treated to a presidential campaign based on fundamental issues Daily, the Republican press would chronicle the piscatorial teats of Messrs. Hoover and Curtis, while the Democratic newspapers would retaliate with even more meticulous accounts of the day's catch of their protegees Pike for pickeral, trout for salmon, the battle would be fought bitterly every inch...