Word: peri
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...educational world they signify the season of commencements. For the past two weeks colleges all over the country have been holding their graduation exercises, and simultaneously has come another phenomenon that has accompanied them of recent years. As the number of students graduated shows a steady increase, the peri's of "mass-production" in education become apparent in many journalistic offices and there appears a succession of editorials "viewing with alarm" this development. Last week the size of the graduating class at Columbia University called forth the editorial in the Providence Journal printed elsewhere on this page...
...program follows: Concerto in D Minor, for Two Violins and Piano Bach M. H. Holmes '28, A. W. Lind '29, and F. W. Ramseyer 2G. Sonata for Piano Clair Leonard '23 F. W. Ramseyer 2G. Invocazione di Orfeo Jacopo Peri Corinth Edward Ballantine Die Mainacht Brahms D. A. Mackinnon 2G., and Edward Ballantine '97. Ballantine '97. La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin Debussy Minstrels Voiles Jardins sous la Pluie Arthur Landers '28 Sonata in A Major, for pianoforte and violin Brahms Willis Fay and M. H. Holmes...
Engaged. Lieut. John Harding, peri-globular aeronaut, to Miss Ida Reussenzehn, clerk in the U. S. Air Service in Dayton...
...Coolidge with several members of his Cabinet waited several hours in the rain, wearing rubbers and a slicker, to welcome the Magellans of the air, the peri-globular fliers, returning to the Capital of their nation. ¶Malcolm MacDonald, son of Ramsay, British Premier, was the guest of Secretary Hughes, who presented the young man at the White House...
...Dukas of "La Peri" is not at all the same as the composer of the "Sorcerer Apprentice". Most of the verve and originality of that gem are lacking, as is also a vital unity. There is a series of rather incoherent, aimless, not too interesting, wanderings...