Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intellectual loneliness in their hearts. To these, as well as to their more fortunate fellows, the infant tutorial system brought new hope. The promise of a new link between the students and the faculty was welcomed with enthusiasm, and though there is still much to be done to perfect the plan, in the main it is justifying itself. The personal element which Dr. Demos emphasizes as so important is beginning to creep back into Harvard life...
Harvard, with other institutions, has the imperfection of not being perfect, it makes mistakes, it often leaves undone what it ought to have done, as witness the wholesome and vivifying border warfare carried on by its graduates with their alma matters. But first, last and always, Harvard teaches its men their right to examine for themselves asserted facts, and thereby teaches them the dignity of the individual. It warns against the tyranny of dogma with its attendant loss of liberty. If any doubt the fruits of this, let them regard the records of Harvard men in all departments...
...work of the several players responsible for the undeniable success of the performance. We lack superlatives and they are dangerous things to fool with, but it is not too much to say that most of the parts could not have been better done. Our old friend Bernard Yedell was perfect as the doctor, and Houston Richards was inimitable as the idea-istic Chub. Miss Hitz., the owner of the "ankle", was at her best, though with not much to do, and Uncle George from Fargo was typical of what most of us think a middle western plutocrat should...
...there is counterrevolution and, all of a sudden, he decides to make sense. But they have become used to the simple life in exile and abdicate. Miss Terry is still pretty, but not so pretty as she was. Mr. Stone is able to make a drunken King and a perfect gentleman seem one and the same...
...this aged onetime University President passed the day reading, studying, strolling in the morning sunshine, answering his correspondence. Once the intimate friend of Bryant, Emerson, Holmes, Lowell, Whittier, Aldrich, Longfellow, he can still read with ease and operate a typewriter. In 1874, Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, then working to perfect the tele phone, was a member of his faculty. This old man is Dr. William Fairfield Warren, President Emeritus of Boston University...