Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tonal mass," "plastic power," went away well content that if they had not passed the final dicta on Manship, they had, at least, put marble into words. The attendants at the Scott and Fowles Gallery, hearing these phrases, as indeed they were often expressly intended to, were not guilty of visible leers. They had been trained by long service to realize that loose verbiage, when applied to beauty in bronze and stone, is not necessarily an evidence of slovenly culture. They had tried, these attendants, to expound, from time to time, on various objects to the spatted or braceleted clients...
WANTED Experienced cheer leader to teach the Law School how many Harvards belong on a "regular" cheer, and exactly when to stop the "Rahs". At the mass meeting at Langdell Hall several days ago there was considerable difference of opinion on these minor points...
...immortalized in Old Creole Days. The Grandissimes, The Creoles of Louisiana, Madame Delphine, Dr. Sevier. When ignorant and prejudiced persons objected to his delineations of octoroons and quadroons and his delicate ridicule of some of the provincialisms of the Creoles, he went North and made his home at Northampton, Mass...
...young and combative, full of zest and of a tremendous will to excell, but being young they need the encouragement of applause. The trustees and awarders of prizes and scholarships and degrees with distinction must, therefore, use publicity to attract, interest, and hold the attention of the great mass of students, just as the reward of fame attracts and interests them in the world of athletics. Academic machinery has managed to carry into effect the maxim of athletics for all; why should it not assume the more important, if superficially disagreeable, duty of making scholarship for all a reality...
...stirring up something which I wish we didn't have to," said Coach E. A. Stevens of the University crews in discussing the innovation of a general mass meeting at the beginning of the crew's season, "but I feel it necessary to clear up some misunderstandings which exist in regard to the crew situation. There is criticism among graduates and undergraduates that crew is a closed sport at Harvard, and I want to explain the relation which crew wishes and ought to bear toward the college. I can do this only in a general meeting...