Word: liking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...possible to find anywhere so exquisitely negligent an attitude toward a supposedly severe punishment as exists in the present undergraduate mind toward the man on probation? For utter non-chalance there is nothing like it. Not that the institution is ineffective, for the opposite is known to be true. But the light-hearted air in which one man, not on probation, will attempt to console his delinquent friend, cannot but appeal to the sense of humor. In the minds of the great majority, who are in good standing, probation is but a question of existing for a few months without...
Lord Stonbury, who is the centre of an artificial social group, is just about to commit suicide partly from financial losses and partly from what appears to be chronic ennui when the Faun appears. Led by a desire to know what men are like, the Faun has come to England from a convenient Mediterranean country, and agrees to give Lord Stonbury tips on the horse-races provided that the Lord will introduce him into society. The first act closes on the rather humorous attempts of the Faun to adopt the dress and manners of conventional society...
...tragic comedy of realism: a first act of pure and unusually delightful comedy, a second and third of good melo-drama, and finally an epilogue that makes appeals by way of its persistence in sticking to facts, as ordinarily experienced. All in all, one might have wished for more like the beginning; yet the play holds throughout, and as acted by Miss Dorothy Donnelly, Mr. John Barrymore and an even company, it is such a treat as seldom comes the way of theatre-goers. Mr. Barrymore in particular by his impersonation of the discarded well-to-do New Yorker added...
...spirit which sent Livingston to South Africa, Gilmore to China and Manchuria, and is responsible for the achievements of all such men, whose lives are heritages for all time. The Christian of Christ's life-time was a very human person, not remarkable for idealism or mysticism, but possessing, like Christ's disciples, all of man's natural weaknesses. What Christ made of them we all know, and in the same way can our lives be transformed through faith...
...Harvard University Register, like other things connected with the University, expands and improves. The issue for the current year (1911-12) is a volume of nearly 500 pages, packed with convenient information. Here one can learn about the persons who are concerned with each and every one of our manifold activities, from the Board of Overseers and the Alumni Associations to the Freshman Debating Society, from the Dramatic Club to the Co-operative Society, from the Pierian Sodality to the Hockey Team, from the Circolo Italiano to the Chinese Students' Club. Here are the records of honors and academic distinctions...