Word: partings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...choosing of the undergraduate personnel of the Houses undoubtedly presents some of the gravest problems in connection with the House Plan. The restricted numbers for which the first two Houses provide makes it inevitable that there will be many opportunities for ill-feeling on the part of excluded men. If the responsibility of selection rests with a committee of several different persons it would make it difficult for these men to get adequate explanation of their exclusion. False impressions of favoritism on the part of some members of the committee would be allowed to flourish, and in general the situation...
...multitude of ways; some men will fall in a great many classes, some only in a few. The mathematics of things are too complicated to allow exact treatment, and only a very human sort of approximation can be made. Much depends upon an unbiased attitude on the part of the choosers and a clear sighted understanding of the difficulties of the situation...
...life is unfolded. The pictures are obvious enough, and placed in such obvious sequence that even a novel-browser may read both tale and fable aright. The artist comes to a strange land, gets into difficulties from which he is rescued by a mysterious masked figure. End of Part I. The artist comes to a city, paints pictures, is taken up by a patron, lionized, supplied with a mistress. End of Part II. He is happy with her until he discovers she is mercenary. This tragic realization merely amuses her. He rushes out, sees a nightmare of cheap love everywhere...
...displayed by Harvard supporters at the victory over Yale was due perhaps not so much to the fact that the traditional rival was beaten but that the Harvard team had fulfilled earlier predictions of latent strength and coordination. The defeat of a major rival in these days is only part of a composite goal that Harvard teams strive for and usually gain. To produce an unbeaten team is no longer the all in all of Harvard athletic policy nor the sole aim of Harvard supporters. For it is most certainly true that the idea of sports for the sake...
...last lecture of the series, the concept of the cosmoplasma will be developed. It is at once the most mysterious and most fundamental part of the universe, and only recently has come under direct experimental study. In brief, it is the substratum of materials throughout the universe, between planets, stars, and galaxies, that has no obvious systematic organization. Hence it includes such diverse constituents as the high speed shooting stars, interstellar calcium gas, and radiation itself...