Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...article by Mr. Pond, Chairman of the School of Landscape Architecture, on the subject of the disposition of the new housing units finds many faults with the details of the Student Council plan, as might be expected when an authority views the suggestions of laymen. The objections, however, deal with the superficial aspects of the plan, and seem to find no fault with the report's basic idea of a more or less cloistered second Yard...
...further examination of the proposed new House plan which is soon to be put into operation at Harvard reveals a great many interesting phases to those who see in the situation certain conditions which might be said to parallel those at Yale. To sum up the broadest aspect of the plan, it is projected subdivision of the University into smaller residential units, and the chief purpose will be an improvement of the social side of education by the promotion of better understanding between diverse groups of students and the establishment of more thorough contacts between students and instructors or tutors...
Another parallel situation which the inception of a similar plan of subdivision might ameliorate is the absolute lack of unity of any description since the class, as a solid group, has become extinct. There would be the hope that in centering men from all three of the upper classes of the College in small quadrangles truly organic groups might result which could be called unified. There should be the sense of comradeship which used to be inherent in the old class system, before they became too large. By throwing together men of widely varying mental equipment and cultural interests there...
...Craig's Wife" was George Kelly's inimitable dialogue translated into movie language, whose two-way dimensions do not encourage, as the stage does, the possibility that ladies of the audience might be allowed to leap the footlights and tell Mrs. Craig what is known as a Few Things...
There is no reason to suppose that a Junior Dance at the Union would be any more popular than in Memorial Hall. The room might be slightly more cheerful, but if the dance were really well-attended the place would be much overcrowded. With a small number the function would be no more distinctive than a mediocre Union Dance. Certainly the Class of 1930 has no desire for anything of this sort...