Word: manner
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...taste in the community of the University, than Dr. Davison. In addition to his work as an organist of international reputation, he has devoted his services to the popularization of good music in the University at large. This work he has accomplished in an eminently practical and effective manner. His method has been that of the organizer, and in the popular idiom, he has "brought home the bacon...
...great deal of credit is due to all concerned for the intelligent manner in which the work has been done, in spite of the great handicap which the present building and equipment has placed upon it. Practically all that was hoped of this new system has been realized, while the professional pessimists who opposed its introduction have not as yet been heard from. The fact that the Harvard authorities themselves who advised against Princeton's trying the plan are now preparing to take it up is proof of the practical and useful way in which it has worked...
Yale's need of new dormitories, particularly for freshman classes, is brought to light in a striking manner by the recent action taken by the class of 1918. The sophomores, wishing to have their quarters on Berkely Oval next year, have announced their intention of forming a stock company to build a dormitory for the incoming class of 1920, to the end that they might have the Oval to themselves...
...particular the remarkable sestet with the "Imperial hosts upon disconsolate seas." "The Tree of Stars" and "A Renaissance Picture" by Mr. Poore are both of them charming poems. Perhaps the former is the more exquisite, but the latter rouses our critical attention. It is so strangely in the manner of Cuthbert Wright, youngest of the small group of real American poets, as to make me look again at the author's name. Have we here an example of that imitation of other artists so instinctive and so admirable in the beginner? Or is it possible that the same milieu...
...College debating is the worst possible training for public life." Certainly, if it is supposed to be an adequate training for public life at all. But, in spite of an occasional disagreeable debating mind and manner to be found, there is no evidence that debaters consider it as anything more than good preliminary practice in the logical analysis and forcible presentation of arguments. A striking instance of intellectual sincerity was afforded by the recent triangular debate on suffrage, in which nearly all the members of the Harvard team were converted to the affirmative, although it was the three negative teams...