Word: marked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world, represented each by one or two enormously, incredibly potent individuals. By the time that a London war conference has revealed the (imaginary) iniquities of teutonic schemes for indemnity avoidance, the rich American heroine is drawing close to the embrace of the almost equally plutocratic hero, polo-playing Mark Van Stratton. The highest quality of Author Oppenheim's work lies in the universality of its appeal?this one would be highly acceptable to a semi-cretin or a college professor. It is hardly ambiguous to say that Author Oppenheim has produced, without writing a work of literature, the best...
...authority to a point at which proposals to disestablish the Church might again be made. "How many members of this House," he concluded, 'believe that the Church would survive disestablishment? I believe that I am right in thinking that the spirit . . . of compromise which has been a mark of the Church of England for centuries is a thing worth preserving in national life." Such reasoned argument appealed to many in the House, but passions began to stir when a fiery blast against "compromise" was blared by the Home Secretary, hot-headed reactionary Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks. Cried...
...recent vote of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the standard of exemption from English A of students entering the College has been raised five points. Last year, with the abolition of the anticipatory examinations which had been in force previously, a new system was adopted whereby a mark of 70 per cent or better in his College entrance examinations would excuse a student from his usual Freshman English requirement. For the coming year the work will have to be 75 per cent to procure the student's exemption...
With the championship of the Junior class definitely decided by the 3-0 victory of N. S. Barnes '29 over Mark Hopkins '29, pre-holiday squash will be marked this week by the playing off of the finals of the rest of the inter-class squash tournament...
...article leads one to object to the "Professional Tutor' (why so called? Tutors in Harvard College are equally professional and, in many cases, quite as efficient) solely on one ground--his rates are exorhitant. His services are acknowledged to be of great value and often essential; his prices alone mark him as a Pariah...