Word: performance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...instructors alike should read, "Don't give advice too seriously." The system of under and upper class advisors which prevails in the Arts college is an excellent one, so long as the advisors remain in character, and act as advisors only. Far too many of the men who perform the onerous task of interviewing students bring into their respective offices a set of ideas which was adopted years ago and has been firmly cemented by the passage of time. If the student's own plans and tastes happen to coincide with those of his advisors, everything goes smoothly...
...words can be taken in only one sense--that the Council as a body assumes censorial rights in all undergraduate activities "open to competition." Consequently it would appear that in this clause the Council elevates its powers of jurisdiction over those of the Faculty, which long since ceased to perform as active judge in questions arising in undergraduate activities. Surely this sixth clause is a heritage from another era, one in which the liberal policies now practised in the University as regards undergraduate control were yet to be put in force. As such it is invalid and in revising...
...Cuba quite as much as elsewhere, social duties accompany the business of diplomacy. Such duties Ambassador Judah is financially equipped to perform better than many a diplomat. He inherited substantially from his father, and Mrs. Judah was Dorothy Patterson of the National Cash Register family (Dayton, Ohio). The Judahs will have a month or so to get settled in Havana. Then will come the pan-American conference, at which the new ambassador will be, ex officio, a member of the U. S. delegation and host of his colleagues, the latter perhaps including President Coolidge...
...Cincinnati on December 22, the program will be given in the form of a Pop concert, at which favors will be distributed. The next night, in Odoen Hall in St. Louis the Instrumental Clubs will give a joint concert with the Yale Glee Club and December 24 will perform at Nashville. Tennessee. Christmas day will be spent en route from Nashville to Atlanta, Georgia, for a concert there on December...
...from developing into uncomfortable obesity by at least weekly workouts on the Charles in a single shell. When this turbulent river is frozen over, Dick, versatile athlete that he is, turns to fancy skating. He is a member of the Boston Skating Club and those who have seen him perform in the Boston Arena say that he cuts a mean figure...