Word: preciously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...emphasis on his harsh discouragements. Its high point deals with Audubon's awakening ambitions in the South. The dramatic bird life of Louisiana, where adroit and playful mockingbirds chase dogs and torment cats, while sparrows look on in excitement', enchanted Audubon. There he conceived his great and precious folios of the Birds of America that are now collectors' rarities valued at $10,000. He painted woodpeckers, flycatchers, studied the chuck-will's-widow that moves its eggs if they are touched, the water turkey that walks on the bottom of streams, the rare scarlet ibis...
...Give Me Your Heart" comes to the University. It has already converted one Kay Francis hater, and she is still the weakest member of the cast. Of course the triangle has some clever new angles, but the dialogue and minor situations are what really give the actors their chance. Precious feet of film are given to good conversation, and the audience has a chance to enjoy the picture instead of having to follow a bewildering series of action shots...
...quiet, minutely drawn portrayal of Napoleon Bonaparte's last years on the rocky island of St. Helena. With his handful of faithful generals, the exiled emperor arrives with a grim swagger, never doubting that he will soon be leaving as he left Elba. At once he foregoes his precious daily ride on horseback when he learns that a British guard must accompany him. But hope springs up when he reads of riots in Paris...
...studies. We are reminded of the contributions of Professor W. M. Davis of Harvard to the study of Physiography in France, of the influence of the "case system" developed at the Law School and the School of Business Administration on teaching methods in similar French institutions, and of the precious aid brought to the study of French mediaeval archeology by Harvard scholars. Paul Hazard, in the concluding essay, summarizes some of the thrings that Harvard has given to the many French teachers and students who have so journed here, among them, "a new conception of the relationship between students...
...already there are current among us movements hardly less ruinous, if they go unchecked, than those which on the continent have despoiled ancient universities of their most precious birth-right...