Word: mood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beta Kappa: Horace Bancroft Davis of Brookline; Samuel Leo Fuss of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a transfer student from the University of Pittsburgh; Julian Lawrence Holley of Bristol, Connecticut, a transfer student from Williams College; Charles Hartshorne of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, a transfer student from Haverford College; and Fulmer Franklin Mood of Oakland, California. Only five more members of this class will be taken into the Phi Beta Kappa. These will be elected at the time of the Final Examinations on special consideration for honorary degrees...
...methodical reviewer will notice with satisfaction the improved quality of the paper used in the 1920-21 Register, he may comment with satisfaction on the excellence of the University Calendar, and he will not, of course, fall to congratulate the undergraduate editors on their accomplishment. In sterner mood, he will, mayhap, point out that misprints are not wholly absent, forgetting how great must have been the task of proof-reading the book. Certainly, when all else is said, he will agree that the Register is something to be owned by everyone who hopes to be an intelligent part...
...would seem that, despite assertions to the contrary, the Germans are not yet in the mood to eat "humble-pie"; the victories of a half-century are not easily overcome by four years of technical defeat. Germany came out of the war practically unscathed, except in man-power; she was not crushed, but checked for a time in her headlong career. Even the 'rebellion," and the setting up of a Republic can at the last avail little against the popularity of the "blood and iron" theory as vindicated by Bismarck in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles...
...themselves to a collegiate, or rather so-called collegiate type of entertainment, rather than deviate into more classical channels. People who, unfamiliar with the repertoire of the Harvard Glee Club, look forward to an evening of reminiscent joviality, are apt to be disappointed; if so, they are in no mood to appreciate the beauty of the program offered...
...Broken Barriers, or Red Love on a Blue Island," is perhaps even more mirth-compelling in its descriptions of utterly foolish incidents following a shipwreck; treated with a vigorous hand, it hurls chunks of humor, as it were, at the reader, who, if he be in the right mood, finds his vision obscured at times by tears of laughter. Uncontrollable chuckling seizes him at Mr. Brown's ludicrously chivalrous attitude to his fair companion on the desert isle and their common adventures it is only a pity that the ending is rather weak...