Word: presentably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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About 125 men were present at the opening meeting of the wrestling season, held yesterday afternoon at Hemenway Gymnasium. Several speeches were made, by Nathaniei Warner '30, captain of the University team, H. C. Speel 30, manager, and Clifford Gallagher, new coach...
...Present day America offers an almost unexampled field for architectural development. A true American type of commercial structure has been evolved since the war, and in almost every field of architecture the expansion of the city and of the nation offers new and broader opportunities for American talent. Harvard, combining as it does the new School of City Planning and the Architectural School is particularly well fitted to contribute to the architectural and aesthetic development of the country...
...Bessie Love, Marie Dressler, and Polly Moran carry off the honors over the other ladies of the cast, because they have more opportunity to be funny than the rest have to act. Joan Crawford, Anita Page, and Marion Davies are all acceptable in less distinctive parts. Laurel and Hardy present a little highgrade slapstick, and Buster Keaton's burlesque of the exquisite jewel dance that precedes him, outdoes them...
...midst of the present deluge of collegiate criticism, Professor David Snedder of Teachers College, Columbia University, has presented the theory that the standardized education of today is completely inadequate for the diversified group of men presenting themselves for non-professional degrees. The proposal of Mr. Snedder provides for a college with no degrees and no entrance examinations, an institution with emphasis on preparation for a vocation. The substance of his objection is that the present educational system affords no place for the purely academic mind and advances the student no farther along the road to the attainment of his vocation...
...consideration of the fact that in many colleges the educational atmosphere is effectively diffused under the pressure of extra-curricular functions. However, his desire to concentrate the scope of the student, especially that of men interested in pre-professional work falls very short of helping the situation. Under the present conditions the efforts of most college men are allowed to follow one subject to the exclusion of many others that undoubtedly would be a broadening influence. The loss like a professional school the college remains, the more chance there is to avoid this rut and to exert a wholesome unrestricting...