Word: liking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...world. What was my surprise when at mid-years they advised him to drop out. Now please listen patiently. Of course we were heartbroken; so one morning I went over and talked with three men, and I said, "No, it is impossible that you can drop him out like that." Then I said, "What does D mean in Math" (This is now my main point, for Math. has always been his A study). The gentleman answered, "We go very swift at Harvard and probably your son cannot keep up the pace." Just think of such an answer. Then I said...
...classes housed by the college; advantages which we are gradually learning to recognize. With the unifying of the classes in this manner, could come a broader use of the custom now being started by the Freshmen, as described by Dr. Davison in "Singing at the Freshman Dormitories." Choral singing, like athletics, is meant for the many, but is here confined to the few. The Glee Club meets a want, but only partially fills...
...storiette" called "A Gamble in Orange Blossoms" is badly constructed, failing in a convincing delineation of the leading figure and obscurely cramming the subsequent vicissitudes of the hero and heroine into an inadequate final paragraph. "The Other Voice," a play let, despite the excellent characterization in the dialogue, sounds like an unsuccessful imitation of Maeterlinck or of the NeoIrish school. In the words of the great English lampooner, Philip Guedalla, "The Celtic two light has rendered the action quite invisible...
...bits of verse, "The Jap Doll," "Lamentation," and "The Caravan." The first transposes the "Madame Butterfly Motif" into the familiar key of Kipling's dialesticisms. The second is a highly colored trifle as frail as the "jewelled veil gossamer" that its writer mentions. The last is purposeless but inoffensive. Like so much modern verse, all of these compositions lack the bone and fibre of solid thought and poetic necessity. They leave the impression that their authors sat down and cried, "Lo, I must produce a poem," and then cudgelled their brains for a proper subject...
Another of the most important economizing plans which has been recently put into effect is co-operation of departments in such a manner that like supplies are bought at competitive contractors' prices, thus accomplishing a saving of many thousands of dollars. For example, the eight thousand barrels of flour used for the hospitals are now bought in one contract, instead of in installments as formerly. On this item alone $30,000 is saved. We require more than this, however, we must get not only co-operation within the individual department, but co-operation of all the city departments collectively...