Word: rateness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...note: According to a recent survey, the reproductive rate of Princeton men is declining...
...last I have found him. At any rate he assures me that he really is one of that mysterious group, the Harvard Communists. But personally if they are all as kind-hearted as he, I can continue to sleep at night. For although he has traveled a lot, and acquired such heretical doctrines as International Federation, and Government Rule of Industry, he has never been to Russia, nor even taken up the fad and learned Russian. I am afraid his enthusiasm will not last...
...evening at 8.30 o'clock Hal Ulen will be finding out a lot about the greatest unknown quantity on his Varsity swimming squad--the group of 15 Sophomores who constitute a large part of the squad's reserve element, and who, in some cases, will be holding down first-rate positions in the line-up. The occasion will be the annual Alumni vs. Varsity meet, a contest always fraught with thrills...
...tremendous possibilities of another aspect of student music were demonstrated last Thursday at the Leverett House Christmas Concert. Except for the W. F. Bach concerto which is much too fussy for any but a first rate orchestra, there was very little of the struggling with notes which one might expect from a group made up of amateurs even to the conductors. The outstanding job was done by the Radcliffe Madrigal Group in the three carols for women's voices, but the execution of the whole program was on a surprisingly high level. The concert and others like...
...above novels reveal no promising new writers. Few will be remembered longer than a month. Few improve on past performance. But taken together these 22 novels suggest a couple of general observations: 1) it needs a whale of a lot of inferior novels to get a first-rate one; 2) what determines the first-rateness of a novel is not hatred of fascism, love of democracy, reverence for the U. S. past, emulation of best-seller formulas, adhesion to the Party Line, good intentions, or hard work. It is, rather, a private and non-negotiable possession, namely, creative talent...