Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Papa Juan, the centenarian around whom the story revolves, is a fine old man, kindly, good and wise, who has used every year of his age to the fullest and still has as keen an interest in life and as live a brain as any of his three generations of descendants. With real finesse is the character drawn. The other members of the family who one meets as the play progresses all must yield in some point to its head. Don Evaristo is a bit crotchety, Dona Filomena is on bad terms with everybody; Dona Marciala is intolerant towards Gabriella...
...their college education", he said. "Certainly the contacts formed through newspaper and magazine competitions are of as much value as lectures and study, and both would be of more significance if related to one another. The future university will help the student to face the total interest of life, and his studies will become activities...
...college ought to be the most interesting place in the world, and should not be divided into student interests and faculty requirements. If we could unify the whole college life all the studies would naturally grow out of student interests. It would not be a preparation for after-college life, but an attempt to get the full meaning of life as it goes on all around us. History, literature, and philosophy would be sought as interpretations of this life...
...Sunday, November 24, F. B. Sayre, Professor of Law, will discuss "Religion and Life Today". The following week, T. N. Carver, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy, will have for a subject "How Good Does One Need to Be?" He will be followed by Kirsopp Lake, Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History, talking on "Some Lessons from the History of Religion". The concluding lecture of the first half of the series will be delivered by Mr. A. D. Nock, fellow of Clare College, Cambridge University, England...
Besides their work on the "History of Massachusetts" film, the University Film Foundation is also the producer of the celluloid record of University life as made for the Harvard Alumni Association. Recent announcement of a similar work, to be carried on by Pathe under the direction of K. F. Mather, professor of Geology here, is of interest in the consideration of all the educational film production being carried on about the University...