Word: profound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alumni Bulletin seems likely to have interesting developments. Not only will it vitally affect the subjects of undergaduate and graduate study within Harvard itself, but owning to the position which Havard occupies in the scholastic world, it is more than probable that ultimately it will have a profound and far-reaching influence on the whole attitude of American education. It is not the purpose of this article to discuss the plan in detail, but simply the general principle involved and some of its implications...
...plan is a recognition and enunciation of the principle that Language as Language and Language as Literature are two distinct things, that Philology and Linguistics are a specialized field, calling for a special aptitude, and that a real appreciation and knowledge of Literature, as Literature, can exist without any profound knowledge of that field...
...order of the day through all the Republic. We can cite a number of cases which prove our statements, but we shall refer to only one, that in the city of Leon in the State of Guanajuato, which, for cruel, barbarous, inhuman and unjust treatment, has sown the most profound discontent throughout the republic...
Hotel Imperial (Pola Negri). In Austria, during the troubled days of the War, a beauteous chambermaid exerted profound influence upon the East European situation by confessing to the Russian invaders that the Austrian hero was in her room at a certain embarrassing hour, hence could not have murdered the Russian spy, nor have stolen the important papers. For this strategic fib the Austrians give her the freedom of the army, and the hero. Again Pola Negri finds herself decorating a Hollywood nursery-rhyme...
...calamity becomes oriented in a larger conception only through recognition of the profound changes being undergone in this country by our theory of democracy. The complete absence of a party of opposition, increasing apathy in the ranks of stolid citizenry, the imminent danger of a permanent one-party rule are symptoms of the same sickness as that of which political invective died. Mayor Rogers may rally other joyous wits and fearless spirits to his cause. The future may have an Ariemus Ward, a Josh Billings, a Mr. Dooley yet unborn. It is certainly to be hoped that this is true...