Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This proposal does not mean that elementary courses in German and French would no longer be given at Harvard. Such courses must of necessity always be open to students who can show legitimate cause for taking them. Such students, for example, as those who, having had elementary German or French in preparatory school, are still unable to pass the language requirement. "There will always be moreover, a certain group of students who having satisfied the language requirement, say in Latin and French, still desire to take up a third language, such as German. The real value of the proposed change...
...Dramatic Club, though busily engaged at present in preparing for the production of "Mr. Paraclete", is also making plans and enlisting actors for its annual miracle play. In the mean-while two letters of unusual interest have been received by the Dramatic Club, both endorsing the Club's policy of experimentation which has been subjected to considerable criticism...
...great-grandfather was taught alcohol was a food, my grandfather was taught it was a beverage, my father was taught it was a stimulant, but I was taught alcohol was a poison. It is time we taught our children that intoxicating liquor was born in Hell and we mean to keep it there...
...Buenos Aires lived a carpenter, and his name was José Vespaciano. He was tall and slender with dark brown eyes and chestnut hair and beard; people who saw him walk the mean streets in his curious, loose robes of white sometimes started, and felt for their beads. He looked like-well, no matter whom- but it was not well to pass a man like that without a sign...
...KNOW WHAT I MEAN-Elsie Janis-Putnam's ($1.50). Elsie Janis was born in 1889; so she is not old enough yet to be writing memoirs. These are just a few essays thrown together in book form-her stage patter put in print. It does not stand the test very well. She is engagingly frank in her manner but not very refreshing. Her "platitudes and plongitudes" are done with the usual zest, but they do not get anywhere. They do not read much better than the stuff of a newspaper reporter trying to be "racy." But those who love...