Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case of the student prepared at the public school, the transition to a college life is much easier academically than it is for the man from the boarding school. The former comes from an atmosphere where only a moderate amount of pressure can possibly be brought to bear upon the amount of studying that he undertakes. The school day lasts from 9 to 3 o'clock and the question of whether he shall study or not during the rest of the day lies entirely in his own hands, or in those of his family...
Best current pictures listed (A) according to. merit (B) according to the money they made last week: (A) The Passion of Joan of Arc-Silent French version of history's greatest courtroom scene. The Divine Lady-Love among the frigates. The Spieler-Original story of carnival life. Wild Orchids- Greta Garbo in a bedroom for three. Strong Boy-Promotions of a baggage-smasher. (B) The Wild Party ($42,300, Buffalo, Buffalo) ; Wolf. Song ($34,000, Paramount, Los Angeles); Noah's Ark ($20,000, Aldine, Philadelphia); Weary River ($7,900, Des Moines, Des Moines...
Modeste Petrovich Moussorgsky's happiest moment came on March 16, 1881, when, in a St. Petersburg hospital, surrounded by strangers, Fate permitted him to die. For 46 years he had been beaten by life. His first love, and his last and real love had died. He had lost his devoted mother. He had a permanent quarrel with his brother. He had had financial collapse, humiliating work as a government clerk at small pay in the department of woods and forests-worst of all, lack of recognition for his music. Final blow: his life-child, the opera Boris Godonnov, tragic...
...foremost German psychologists, Dr. Kurt Koffka, will lecture on "Machines, Life, and `Gestait' " on Wednesday evening at Jacob Sleeper Hall, Boston, under the auspices of the American Association of University Women...
...concentrating in the sciences have long suffered from having to do virtually all their work at a time when their fellow students are engaging in athletics or various other of the amentities of college life. As a result they have become men apart with little or nothing in common with the other members of the college. They know the students who work near them during the day but only with great effort may they acquaint themselves with the life of the college as a whole or with men of different temperaments and interests...