Word: proof
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps this is a reward to the faithful, and a proof that Symphony concerts are not in vain. Certainly the subscribers to the series never foresaw when they trod their ways to those simple, unassuming Thursday evenings, that ultimately fame would come--fame and Mr. Chaplin. But the scandal sheets have headlined the affair, not as praising the advent of culture and Rimsky-Korsokof in Cambridge, but as announcing the presence of a much married man. This is as it should be: the tabloid has its story: Mrs. Chaplin sees Memorial Hall when it is most imposing--in the dead...
...Harvard University, the step was greeted in Boston newspapers under large headlines as a startling innovation. When on Sunday of this week, four students met with a committee of the Overseers to discuss problems connected with Harvard College, the daily press ignored it. There could be no better proof that what was an innovation has become a precedent...
...true in matters involving discipline and undergraduate morale. No true educator could be found today to hold that any such reform can ever be effectively instituted without the sympathy and support of the students themselves. The question of cooperation in strictly educational problems is not so clear. For concrete proof of success of such a policy as that inaugurated by the Overseers, we will have to wait. Probably much will have to be done in organizing public opinion and in educating response before such proof can even be looked for. It is undeniable that the student has certain things...
...speaks of a betrayal. Of his betrayal by Mirelli, who killed himself because of the proof that he wished to give him that it was easy to obtain from you (if you will pardon my saying so) what Mirelli himself had failed to attain...
Cause for alarm or proof of prosperity was found by the National Industrial Conference Board in the fact that the working percentage in the U. S. is declining. Thus...