Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...College at present an altogether excessive amount of course instruction. While some departments, such as economics, have reduced their curriculum to the minimum number of courses required to cover the major sectors of the field, other departments remain glutted with a multitude of courses which are often as poor as they are superfluous...
...story involves a girl who does imitations of movie stars, the discovery that a boy thought to be poor is, in reality, a wealthy heir, and a tour through the auto camps of America with Mr. Rogers at the helm of the car. The trenchant political observations of the former mayor of Beverly break forth now and again, but the production is replete only with a lazy good humor which is not stimulating...
...Poor Cinderella! She expected great things of life. And now all her illusions have been so rudely shattered; Harvard has feet of the commonest clay. Even so she tried heroically to serve; she even went to such lengths as secretly to bring the boys what they ordered. All this, despite the fact that some of them were so inconsiderate as not to ask her to marry them, and that only one of them tipped her a dollar. We are sorry that Kay's faith has been shattered; but all great spiritual experiences come only at a high cost. And this...
...were built expressly for the purposes which they are serving and have desirable locations. As in any hotel which is run on sound economic principles, the management must satisfy the students, who are in reality paying guests. If the prices are high, the food bad, or the maid service poor there are sure to be objections. The fact that men are leaving will force the college authorities to adjust their prices and general management to suit their demands...
...might indulge when unexpectedly surprised in a bedroom with his lithesome stenographer; this bedroom is--as it should be--the center around which the action of the play revolves. It is in this fatal bedroom that Warren Pascal is caught when his fiancee and her brother unexpectedly arrive; poor Warren with admirable technique had just lured his sparrow-brained stenographer in there with a bribe of lingerie, when suddenly all his fun is spoiled and his engagement ruined into the bargain. But Warren is not a man to be so easily defeated; he fairly drips with fine ideas, which unfortunately...