Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When queried by a CRIMSON reporter concerning his stand in the matter yesterday. Dr. Myerson stated that he preferred to wait until the meeting tonight before making public any of his views, further than those he had discussed in the columns of the Herald...
...that matter is the writing--done at a period when all the important characters had "exits" in the last act, with appropriate pauses for the audience to applaud in, when every situation was suggested, built up, and reached with a mechanical inevitability--the day of the "well-made play." Fortunately, that rigidity doesn't hold these days. In a period of nine-act dramas, of comedies taking place in a character's mind, of slangy racketeer melodrama the obvious mechanisms of Harry B. Smith's farce strike one as outdated, rusty, but serviceable...
...terms of these gifts make it plain that their purpose is to teach a method of approach to life in general, an intangible matter certainly, but the characteristic of the really outstanding teacher is his ability to bring the most evanescent affairs within the range of grasp of his more human followers. Experience with the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship demonstrates that it is no easy matter to find a man capable of perpetuating the Norton tradition. It is not going to be easy to find the individual who can make Germanic Culture live as did Kuno Francke...
...Harold ("Jimmy") Doolittle, 33, "best Army Flyer," did it, at Mitchel Field, L. I. Thereby he completed eleven months' experiments for which the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics borrowed him from the Army Air Corps, and which presaged the highest safety in flying through no matter what weather...
Important as it is to society, the program of law reform is both large and difficult and its completion will be a matter of decades rather than years. Harvard may well be proud of being represented among the leaders in the movement and the new Institute has opportunity to make a valuable contribution. It is especially fortunate to have at its head Professor Redlich, whose experience as Austrian Minister of Finance and as Professor of Public Law at the University of Vienna quality him from both the administrative and the academic point of view and make him an admirable leader...