Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest, surprise of the day was the excellent playing of P. R. Pease '26, who forced E. M. Hinkle '23, number two on the University team to a close three-game match, losing 10-15, 15-7, 15-8. Pease had a great many good shots and showed rare judgment. The meeting between, E. K. Davis '24 and F. I. Carpenter '24 was a close and exciting struggle throughout, the latter finally pulling through...
...real suggestion lurking in the mind of the Atlantic's contributor, is perhaps that some clearer synthesis is needed between reading and the study of technicalities, a synthesis which is made only by the rare student who applies the lecturer's critical doctrines to the "required reading" faithfully and sensitively. If his only knowledge consists of hastily digested critical formulae and an Independent glance at the authors themselves, often through the crude spectacles of tutoring notes, he will never learn what is meant by genius. A tentative answer to the difficulty has been proposed uniquely in the Freshman class...
...north amused by its own eternal melancholy; it parallels the Slay in those rare moments of formidable relaxation...
...Life of Man" as seen in Brattle Hall has been taken apart, put together again, dissected, praised as a whole, criticized bit by bit; accorded in every way the same reception from the press which would greet the appearence on the professional stage of a rare theatrical gem of the first water. Subtle enough tribute to the success of a group of amateurs...
...possibly varying discrimination. Much of it has been done in connection with his study of the principles and methods underlying the work of the great masters, and is thus more or less scientific in its motive. At the same time, however, it reveals to the sensitive observer a rare enthusiasm for the visual beauty to be found in all sorts of objects and scenes in the world about us an enthusiasm which one associates with Dr. Ross not only as a painter, but also as one of the foremost collectors of the world, and as a teacher...