Word: perfected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...panic in the college Office. Last year there would have been a double line extending down Kirkland Street to Massachusetts Avenue, and the freshman class would have advertised itself by its clamoring and complaints. But this year the nine-hundred-and-thirty-and-more novices were initiated with nearly perfect organization and quiet...
...impossible to expect that all these will work out at the first. But they are all evidences of the effort which has been made to reach a more perfect working arrangement between the student and the college. There is no doubt that the authorities have done much to ameliorate conditions in the University. Whether the much which remains to be done will be done depends to a large extent on the success of the present ventures. 930 plus freshman is a large order but the continual increase of members of undergraduates will test innovations the more severely. If undergraduates...
...Faithful Picture ? Perfect Wax-Work? Twice-Told Tale...
...seem shadowy and unsubstantial; the exact, neat detail, lacking in any real significance; the tale, twice-told. To your reviewer, coming, as it does after Mr. BritUng, Sonia, Le Feu, Three Soldiers, One of Ours and Through the Wheat, A Son at the Front appears like an exhibition of perfect waxworks, meticulously constructed, displaying every external appurtenance of life, but without a single spark of vitality...
Poppy. After some seasons of successful activity as a player of farce, Madge Kennedy abruptly opens her mouth and sings. She sings very well and becomes therefore very nearly the perfect set-to-music heroine. She is more than that, to those who have seen Poppy?she is the ultimate conception of all that a daughter of Eve should...