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Word: mightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...downright hardship. Every student in even the most elementary chemistry course knows the annoyance and loss of time engendered by the inexorable cry "Close up; time to close up! When he has assembled a complicated apparatus and proceeded half way through a difficult experiment. Even though five minutes might suffice to save an hour's work, if no leeway is given the student one hour is wasted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FREEDOM OF THE LAB | 10/4/1928 | See Source »

...announcement that the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry will be vacant during the third year of the endowment is unfortunate in view of the latitude of choice the foundation permits. The renascence of the provision of scholars who might arouse intellectual enthusiasm in undergraduates beyond the confines of tabulated courses, was such a happy one initiated by Gilbert Murray, and recalling the crowded lecture halls of James and Santayana, that its early lapse will be felt by those who knew its boons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CHAIR OF POETRY | 10/3/1928 | See Source »

From the names-of-the great inconspicuous who were connected with this bit, we had a premonition days before hand that three hours at the Shubert might be uncomfortable. They were; they were worse than that. And because the young person with whom we went insisted upon sticking the whole thing through, we had to stay beyond the end of the first act. There are three acts...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 10/3/1928 | See Source »

...Student Vagabond" was first introduced as a daily feature of the CRIMSON three years ago. Its purpose is to let students know that certain lectures, which might prove interesting to them, are being given in a certain hall at a certain time. Any student of the University may listen in on almost any course whenever he wishes. The Vagabond announces what he considers to be the most interesting lectures given each day. So much for new members of Harvard University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/3/1928 | See Source »

...sleeping six and the half dozen late. The well lighted windows of the Business School, and even of the Freshman Halls, tell to any late traveller by the Charles a story sufficiently convincing. Perhaps Dr. Ferrand did not refer to this sort of undergraduate, but rather to those who might be ranked in the Army of the Unemployed. The sinners have salvation in their own hands, but for the plodding saint there is too often only the satisfaction of a fleeting glimpse at Parnassus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NATURE'S SECOND COURSE | 10/2/1928 | See Source »

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