Word: raters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other virtuosos of the instrument of keys and hammers were sorry fellows. He likewise essayed the unusual thing of giving his critical rating of his fellow artists-Paderewski a good pianist but not a great one; likewise Busoni and Rosenthal; Godowsky a good technician; Rachmaninoff a third rater; Josef Hofmann not a great pianist, although he plays well at times. These divertissements were laid to the man's natural peculiarities, those peculiarities which lead him to make apostrophic speeches while he plays a sonata in concert. Actually, however, they were largely the product of an enthusiasm, perhaps a monomania...
...read the list of men who will address those conventions and realise that the speakers as they were on the second day at the Union are all ranged together on the same side of every issue. Finally we league from Publicity articles that "effort will be made to stimulate rater than facts." Rather a starting statement considering the topics to be handled...
Acting in accord with President Lowell's policy of intensifying the influence of the College upon the students by housing as many of them as possible in College dormitories, rater than in private houses, the University has taken over Claverly, Apley and Westmorly Halls from their private owners. Next year these buildings will be administered by the University authorities as regular College dormitories...