Word: purely
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...night called upon to bow his thanks at the Plymouth for the hearty reception given his latest play "The Princess Zim-Zim." Although the program labels this piece very simply as "a new play" it might well be called a semi-tragic comedy of realism: a first act of pure and unusually delightful comedy, a second and third of good melo-drama, and finally an epilogue that makes appeals by way of its persistence in sticking to facts, as ordinarily experienced. All in all, one might have wished for more like the beginning; yet the play holds throughout...
...visits of the mail boat, which now acts also as a hospital ship, collecting patients along the coast and bringing them to the various hospitals where proper care can be taken of them. In connection with the hospital work it is worthy of notice that in this land of pure air tuberculosis is the chief enemy of the people. To help the natives to fight the disease instruction is given, whenever possible, in sanitary methods of living, and today the old habit of keeping shanties absolutely airtight is slowly dying...
Colleges as a rule are opposed to socialism. They do not deny free speech, but exert their influence against it by pure indifference. In spite of this, however, socialism is slowly bringing about an educational awakening at Harvard, and in some western universities has already made great progress...
...recommendation of the Administrative Board of the University the Corporation has decided to impose, a fine of $5 on any student who does not hand in his list of courses on time at the beginning of the college year. This ruling was occasioned by the failure through pure carelessness of some 40 men to do this last September. It does not, however, apply to men who hand in their lists late because of sickness or some other valid excuse...
Other countries often wonder why it is that in American colleges more honor is not paid to pure scholarship. In England the scholars are socially the best men in the universities, in general ranking even above the athletes. At Harvard, to be sure, scholarship is not despised, but it is admitted that the scholars do not receive the honor which they ought; and when they are respected it is usually for combining their scholarship with success in the outside interests which are looked upon more favorably by the undergraduates...