Word: less
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brothers Shubert administer their customary antidote to city summer and complete a trilogy which was begun in past summers with A Night in Paris and continued with A Night in Spain. Again the Shuberts have felt no great obligation to their chosen title?the Venice pictured would be far less familiar to a gondolier than it would to an oldtime Keith vaudeville subscriber. There are some tricornered hats, languid rhythms, a Benvenuto Cellini fantasy, but by far the most electric portions of the entertainment occur in modern two-a-day tempo and setting...
Stepping Out, by Elmer Harris, is billed serenely as a "new and modern comedy," a nice distinction which, regrettably, is wasted. A farce dealing in less clean than lavatory fashion with the awkward infidelities of two married satyrs among Hollywood lupanars, Stepping Out is neither new nor modern. When, in fact, the pretty specimens with whom Tubby Smith and Tom Martin have been misconducting themselves appear to demand blackmail, Tubby produces for the emergency a wisecrack which, though good, resembles many that have been heard before. "I thought you were nice girls," he complains, "not good, but nice...
...number 365, all of them eminently visible of cut and shade. Even in his training camp he likes to change his clothes several times a day. He has never lost a fight, nor learned to speak English. He fought at 121 lb. last week. Had he weighed three pounds less he might have been declared bantamweight champion of the world, a title at present unassigned. As it is, he is about three fights away from the featherweight title...
...theory that Harvard, because of its location or some tradition at individualism, has less need for vocational guidance than other universities, is entirely out of date. Harvard seniors in this age of manifold interests, are less and less able to determine which offers submitted by numberless business concerns, are adapted to their abilities or to their tastes. It is increasingly clear to me, after discussing vocational questions for the past three years, that the great majority of Harvard seniors have no idea which held of business activity they wish to enter. They have seized eagerly any information in the form...
...third source of trouble, the men with low admission records, there is less possibility of improvement. Requirements of the College Entrance Board examinations have been raised repeatedly, and the secondary schools are already placing the chief emphasis of their curriculum upon obtaining a good record at these tests. Since low admission grades rank only third in the list of causes of poor standing in college, there are evidently other factors than that of proficiency at passing the entrance examinations to be considered in estimating a man's success after matriculation. Among these might be mentioned the familiar demand for greater...