Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long as the painspot is thus under the skin, such palliatives as that of Dean Mitchell can have only a lulling effect. Only when the college man is thoroughly grounded in the elementaries, and has plumbed deeper that this in his field of special interest, can he be placed fully upon his own in academic responsibility. But he must be gives "cause and will and strength and means to don't," even if he never attains the intellectual precocity of the English student. He must have time, as well as incentive, to study alone. A single self-won thought will...
...flowers only in the adult mind. The germ is implanted in the child's first consciousness, and flourishes from that time on. But though the mature can claim no monopoly in its possession, they alone are able to release it install its dazzling light. The top hats, the mile-long parade, and the tons of confetti are theirs alone...
Sunday night is the time when the Pops offer their most serious productions. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven with the Eroica--all these composers have been represented not merely by selections, but by complete and capable performances of some of their greatest works. Whether appreciation of a long symphony ends with the coming of spring is uncertain; at any rate, these concerts have gone upon the opposite asumption, and the results have been distinctly gratifying. Evidently the public is not completely satisfied with the usual program of shreds and patches. The Pops are hardly ready to take rank as a continuation...
...South last week. The tops of the dark mountains were panelled brightly with ice. The chandeliers at the opera house, El Teatro Colon, in Buenos Aires, glittered as if with a luminous frost. At 9 o'clock, when the curbs outside it were populated with chauffeurs, wrapped in long coats, music began in El Colon. Tullio Serafin raised his baton, the violins began a soft prelude and the curtain rose upon Aida, a scene of warm sands and tropical trees...
...deadlock in the fourth period was followed by a long scoring drive from Captain. R. B. Burnett ocC, in the fifth. Then came a burst of speed from the Yale riders, who tallied twice off the mallets of O. M. Wallop and Captain F. C. Baldwin. In the final chukker, Yale tied the count and then drove home the winning goal, Wallop and Baldwin again being responsible for the scores. No substitutions were made throughout the game...