Word: normale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange and New York bank clearings having fallen from the December levels. The average price of industrial stocks, on the other hand, showed some improvement. Commercial paper rates rose somewhat, the change in this case being the result of the correction for normal pre-war seasonal variation. it seems probable, however, that the federal reserve system has a stabilizing influence on commercial rates, so that seasonal variations are now less than they were in pre-war times. Actual average rates in January were a shade lower than in December...
...reason for believing that what brings pleasure to the musician is any higher or nobler than that which brings pleasure to the normal human being," etc.; assuming of course that all musicians are either ab or sub-normal, and that no normal person can be a musician at heart, whether or not, a professional. he considers mediocrity of taste to be an excuse for itself, and that nothing further is necessarily to be desired. But good taste is the result of cultivation. Few persons are born with a natural appreciation of Wagner or Debussy, any more than for Velasquez...
...reason for believing that what brings pleasure to the Musician is any higher or nobler than that which brings pleasure to the normal human being. If a person is able to get satisfaction out of something that does not bring satisfaction to the average man, and is not able to enjoy something that this average man enjoy, he is in a sense, abnormal. If this is nobility I prefer to be happy in my ignobility...
...effort to break away from the somewhat stultifying literary atmosphere of the Advocate by printing a series of articles, some of them rather objectional, intended to set the college-world both thinking and talking. Since those first two numbers it has been gradually declining into a more commonplace and normal state in which it is satisfied to print the usual type of college article and story. Its first number of the present year is sufficient proof that it had forgotten the purpose with which it set out. Such titles as "The Football Team," "Harvard's Glee Club," and an article...
...sufficient for the Harvard Magazine to take its place as an accepted and normal college literary publication: It must branch out into new fields and give an opportunity of expression to the men of the University whose thinking leads them to question the existing theories and standards...