Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lunch hour whiled away in the dank Paine Hall basement. Neither their appetite for ham nor their taste for the good Frenchman was aroused; snatching idle moments through the day to study for a full course in Harvard College often seemed a hopeless exercise. Certain hours became more popular than others, often the room was overcrowded and the listening time seemed restrictive. With a music library promised for Autmun, and a Lamont record collection at least projected, it now seems propitious to reconsider ways of allowing students to make a realistic survey of Music I's assignments...
...late Robert Benchley '12 helped to produce three of the best Pudding shows: "Diane's Debut" in 1910, "The Crystal Gazer" in 1911, and "Below Zero" in 1912. "Diana's Debut", the most popular of the three, was a heavy-handed satire on Boston Society. The big song in the play had a famous line, "At Somerset, things were rather...
...written with the advice of U.S. farm experts, makes many changes. Recognizing that one good solution is to get the landless mountain peasants onto fertile, government-owned lowlands (which can grow three crops of corn a year), it tempts them with homesteads at low prices. Recognizing also the popular demand for land redistribution, it provides for the well-compensated expropriation of idle parts of big estates and their division among the landless. The new plan offers technical assistance, credit, housing and "fundamental agrarian education" aimed at turning the withdrawn Indians into cash-crop farmers and cash-spending consumers. In contrast...
Cocktail Houri. Bobbing and weaving about the premises are a passel of New York glitterati. There is a highbrow editor of a popular magazine who is keen on starting a new literary journal and wants Tom to round up a staff of "topnotchers" and decorated veterans from the little magazine wars ("You did publish Holloway's first stuff in Spectra, didn't you?"). There is Tom's cousin George, a would-be painter turned psychoanalyst, and George's wife, whose mind is an ambush out of which Freud continually jumps ("Can't the Cross...
...Quincy's peculiarities are, in this neighborhood, well understood. His characteristic ardor of feeling, obstinacy of determination, and impetuosity in action, are known to all who have met him in public or private life... These qualities may be valuable in a popular leader, but they are more than useless in the President of a College. Students, though liable to error through inexperience, are nevertheless disposed to yield to just laws when enforced with mildness and dignity! These two requisites are manifestly wanting in Mr. Quincy...