Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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College authorities who object to the prevalent undergraduate custom of trooping off for the weekend have obviously not tried to sleep to the Massachusetts avenue obligato of Mack trucks and screaming street car rails. The two nights a week of rural slumber afforded by the pleasant Harvard custom of week-ending guarantee at least a nucleus of rest around which to group whatever additional moments may be snatched in the cloistered bedrooms abutting on the square. In other words the Dean's office has made no mistake in allowing a certain amount of leeway on such weekends as the coming...
...million and a half. In half a century more it will have two or three million. Like the whole surrounding region, Cambridge will be more and more densely populated. It will be a place of brick and mortar, of noise and scurry and distraction, no longer a suburb of pleasant houses, shady streets, simple and quiet ways...
...Cambridge of Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra is sufficient to evoke enthusiasm from The Vagabond, who has not forgotten the first of the series of concerts which have periodically relieved the strain of a pedestrian education. Thursday's program from Beethoven. Stravinsky, and Tchaikowsky holds a pleasant promise to carry over the last stretch of hour examinations...
...girlhood suitor (Hugh Miller), upon whom her family had frowned, returns after two decades of desperate forgetfulness in South America. In their hot youth he had gotten the matron with daughter, a hard-boiled maiden who throughout the play symbolizes the modern girl. These conventionalities are accented by pleasant dialog which attains such epigrammatic heights as: "Children should be the result of love, not love the result of children." Convinced that it had amused, the Assembly announced that subsequent plays would be in the Lolly genre...
...Henri Matisse; first prize, 1928, to André Derain) were considerably puzzled by this award. Edward Bruce painted an Italian pear tree, leafless, in full blossom. This canvas won first honorable mention and $300. Meticulously Painter Bruce had picked out each bud against a leaden sky, producing a pleasant, symmetrically composed picture, eclectic, Japanesque. It is not particularly remarkable, but Edward Bruce has not long been a painter. U. S. merchant, banker, lawyer, he quit business in 1922, aged 43, and retired to Italy to study under U. S. Painter Maurice Sterne, who was a member of this year...