Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nominations of John Edward Kennedy of Jamaica Plain, Wallace Everard Stearns of Concord, N. H., Edwin Sibley Webster of Chestnut Hill for Class Committee, and John Rogers. Flather of Lowell for Album Committee were made yesterday by petition. These nominations were approved by the Senior Class Nominating Committee in accordance with constitutional regulations...
...conservatively minded realize that their whole attitude toward the world and its betterment is based on an assumption that finds no least support in the Great Book of the Past? Does it not make plain that the "conservative" so far as he is consistent and lives up to his professions is fatally in the wrong? The so-called "radical" is also almost always wrong, for no one can foresee the future. But he works on a right assumption--namely, that the future has so far always proved different from the past and that it will continue to do so. Some...
...better in the 1922 examinations. The most brilliant individual record among 1003 final candidates was made by George W. Cottrell Jr. '26 of Cleveland, Ohio, who prepared at the University School in that city. He led by a narrow margin Austin M. Brues '26 of Jamaica Plain, who prepared at Roxbury Latin School, and Philip E. Mosely '26 of Westfield, who prepared at Westfield High School...
...very sad and strange thing that the greatest and most powerful, as well as the most generous and humanitarian of peoples, should have been betrayed into shirking its plain duty of cooperation in world affairs through this splendid channel, the most hopeful ever created,--by the timorous conservatism and petty politics of a few men in the United States Senate. It seems likely that it will take at least five or six years to overcome in America the impression of suspicion and dread of the most Christian attempt to cooperate for the good of all ever seen in the world...
...decorations consist of two oblong panels, arched at the top, and in plain view from either the top or the bottom of the main staircase. They are uniform, in shape and design, with the three windows that flank the stairway. The light, coming freely from both sides, gives the visitor ample illumination to study the figures with care from the balcony, which is on a level with the paintings. In Mr. Sargent's other Boston murals, the lighting and position are such that careful study is not convenient...