Word: marked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...James Bissett Pratt, Mark Hopkins Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy at Williams College, will give the Hyde Lecture on Foreign Missions at 2.30 o'clock on April 7, in Andover Chapel. His subject will be "The Problem of Christian Missions in Buldhist Sands...
...christen a safety razor? (See Music.) 13) What is the real reason the University of London has not been quick to accept the gift of the City of London? (See EDUCATION.) 14) Define an Alaskan "sour-dough." (See AERONAUTICS.) 15) The I. C. C. has set a certain "fair" mark (percentage) for earnings on its own valuation of the property values of Class I railroads. What percentage? (See BUSINESS...
...popular illusion, alleviating the author's feelings and his passion for unvarnished verity. They are mostly revelations of people, beheld in their reactions to McDougall or his cartoons of them. J. P. Morgan Sr. was small-minded about his big nose; Rudyard Kipling, rude; Tom Nast, vain and petty; Mark Twain, grumpily grudging; Thomas Wanamaker, "a nasty little commercial person"; Woodrow Wilson, "a sort of swift floor-walker's smirk"; Joseph Pulitzer, a social climber, ingenious blasphemer ? for instance, the epithet, "too inde-god-dam-pendent...
...Fain '27 represented Harvard. Professor I. S. Winter, Professor Emeritus of Public Speaking at Harvard, was the chairman of the debate, and Professor C. Edmund Neil, of Boston University, Mr. James E. King, of the Boston Transcript editorial staff, and the Reverend William R. Leslie, of St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Brookline, were the judges...
...have added another triumph to their already long series of successes. Under the direction of M. Koussevitsky, the 300 singers and picked members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra gave a rendition of the Requiem which compares most favorably with the performance last year, and may well serve as a mark toward which to aim in the future...