Word: presentably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been handled rather shabbily by the dramatists. When the eldest generation is not putting obstacles in the way of young love, it is usually portrayed as composed of cynical and dyspeptic individuals ever on the alert to quench the enthusiastic fervor of youth. If an occasional sympathetic portrayal is presented, as in "Old English" the hero is made out to be scapegrace of one sort or another whom one loves partly in spite of and partly because of his faults. Serafin and Joaquin Quintero, the leading present-day Spanish play-wrights, have made a real addition to the literature...
...literature of every kind and the books selected are added to the library. The constitution of the committee, which is representative of the Faculty, the Tutors, and the Undergraduates, ensures a catholicity of taste, and the aim of the committee has always been to meet the needs of the present generation of students, as well as to assemble, as far as human fallibility permits, books of permanent literary value. There are few small libraries that can offer a better representation of every form of contemporary literary activity. It is a pity that the Union Library is not more widely known...
...thirty starting time of previous years is another sign of the tendency on the part of the Athletic Association to attend to the improvement of details. The new padding along the side lines and the much needed protected press box are other tangible innovations. Of these changes the present one is perhaps most gratifying, and the most radical, preferring as it does the convenience of the present to the continuance of an antiquated ruling...
Goodnow, who will have charge of the direction of "Success", is a former vice-president of the Dramatic Club, and a worker in the famous Harvard 47 Workshop of George Pierce Baker for ten years. At present he is giving a course in the theatre at the Garland School in Boston, and coaching amateur theatrical productions...
...Leonids have shown up regularly three times a century for more than a thousand years, but failed to appear when last due at the beginning of the present century. Astronomers suspect that their failure was due to the huge planet Jupiter being too close to their orbit and pulling them off schedule...