Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cuts taken on the days of General Examinations by students who are taking those examinations are entered at the Office as excused: but no notice is sent to the instructor. If you have missed written work, or for any other reason wish to present an excuse to the instructor, please report at once at University 4 and obtain from the Information clerk an excuse card to present to the instructor...
Nearly every week, I find something in the business department of TIME which I missed in the daily newspapers. Frequently, when I refer these items to Mr. Blair, I am impressed with the value of your publication, by reason of the fact that he, too, missed them in his daily reading, and he is a very careful reader...
...grace and attractiveness of desk sets added this autumn to the holiday madness through which fountain pen manufacturers pass at the end of each year. For some reason the retail sellers of the pens & pencils always underestimate their holiday trade. Stocks run low; telegrams and long distance telephone talks beg for shipments...
...Bartók played his Rhapsody. The substitution was unfortunate. The Rhapsody is 24 years old now, the product of an immature genius. Bartók the Original began like all great composers as an imitator. First Brahms was his idol, then Liszt, then Wagner, then Richard Strauss by reason of his Zarathustra, then Liszt again. It seemed peculiarly ironic last week that the Rhapsody, fruit of the Liszt influence, should have been chosen as his introduction, for the mature Bartók has now turned his back on Liszt and his theatrics. Liszt claimed a native Hungarian music when...
...Christmas communiqué lay ready for signing, last week, on the massive desk of Signor Benito Mussolini. With logic, reason and curt common sense he was about to strike at a custom that is old, endearing, hallowed. Dipping a pen in ink, Il Duce dashed his scrawly autograph upon the document: a command to all Italians that they must not send to him any form of Christmas or New Year's greeting...