Word: maining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this, however, is a bit off the main path, the Vagabond was deflected from his original purpose in mentioning a lecture on Richard Strauss, by the fact that that composer was perhaps the first, frankly to use cacaphony in the modern sense. Not that he was unable, as many modern composers seem to be to write most beautiful melodies, yet certainly in such works as "Ein Heldenleben", he points the way to the modern "realistic" tendency. Professor Hill will give the lecture at 12 o'clock in the Music Building...
Singer Manufacturing Co., which makes 80% of the sewing machines in the world and sells them through agencies in practically every community of the world, is one of the corporations which Professor William Zebina Ripley of Harvard scolded in his book Main Street and Wall Street- for furnishing "neither hide nor hair of financial data ... in the usual sources of information." Singer officials are seemingly thus niggardly because their stock is closely owned by people, many of whom knew the founders of their corporation and remember the anecdote of how the late Inslee A. Hopper became their first president...
...schedule is subject to slight changes, but in the main no changes are expected. THURSDAY, JUNE 2. (XI) Botany 14 Botan. Mus. 27 Chemistry 5 Sever 20, 23 Chinese 2 Sever 26 Class. Philology 63 Sever 30 Economics 2 Harvard 2, 5 Engin. Sciences 5b Pierce 304 English 41 Harvard 1, 6 Sever 5, 6, 11 English 80 Sever 11 Fine Arts 2a Fogg Mus. Fine Arts 15b Fogg Lect. Rm. German 1c Sever 24 German 4 Harvard 3 Government 1 Mr. Bromage, B1 B2, B3, B4 New Lect. Hall Mr. Dealey, D1, D2, D3, D4 Memorial Hall Mr. Gregory...
...Further, concentrators in English are aided by tutors, not only to prepare for their individual examinations, but also to acquire the habit of reading good literature and of forming their own opinions about it. Every year the tutors devote more and more time to each student. One of the main purposes of the tutor is to suggest reading (which shall be adapted individually to each student) and to encourage independent reaction to it; in contrast with courses, in which individual students necessarily adapt themselves more or less to the professors' outlining of the subject (though professors heartily welcome independent opinion...
...fundamental critical ideas and terms, and interpreting the purposes and methods of the various types of poetry and prose. This course is exceptionally advantageous for those who are intending to concentrate in English. It shows, so to speak, "what it is all about". Finally, English 78 introduces to the main facts in the social, political, and intellectual history of the various periods of English literature. It helps one to realize that literature grows out of and expresses the life of its day, and that it can hardly be understood without some knowledge of that. Literature is not an orchid...