Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...each year, while Dartmouth achieves almost 80 per cent, Princeton 70 per cent, and even Yale receives a far higher percentage of givers than Harvard. Though the Harvard contributions are larger on the average than those of any other college, the relatively low percentage of givers should be a matter of concern for the administration...
Jerome Kilty's "Play for Two Voices" is composed of excerpts from the correspondence between George Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell, eked out with scenes from Pygmalion and The Apple Cart, and some connective matter by Mr. Kilty. Shaw's letters are as witty as his plays, and Mrs. Campbell was in every way a match for him. Their letters are full of delicate shades of feeling and redolent of two strikingly original personalities. Dear Liar may not be really a play, but it is certainly a pleasure...
...this is only a portion of a larger picture. The Dunster hamburgers, if not chopped sirloin, are nevertheless the right color for hamburgers. Some weeks ago in Lowell a tray of patties was late in coming, and a line piled up. "What's the matter?" asked someone from...
...matter which will soon come up before the board for consideration is the possibility of securing a truck for HSA use next fall. Among projected agencies which would use an HSA truck is a plan for selling and delivering firewood to the Houses, and moving furniture and refrigerators to Harvard rooms...
Enjoying the Advocate is all a matter of expectation. Those who expect professional competence or quasi-professional methods are almost always disappointed. The Advocate is, and must be, a place in which young writers can experiment. The ratio of losers to winners will therefore be extremely high so long as good writers are rare, good young writers rarer, and good young experimental writers are born only once in a century...