Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Great Hall will serve for lectures by distinguished public men and other gatherings in harmony with purposes of the Trust. Adjoining the Hall will be a room for the recording of the names of Rhodes Scholars deemed worthy of commemoration by reason of their performance of public duty. Rhodes Scholars who died in the World War will be the first group so memorialized. Lord Milner, one of the original Trustees, will have a particular memorial. The east wing is to contain the house and office of the Oxford Secretary of the Trust...
...Aycock and his fellows have tried in vain to obtain a serum from the blood of artifically infected monkeys, for the monkey, although the only animal susceptible to the disease, is so sensitive that it cannot survive the attack of the paralysis germ. For this reason the Commission is requesting volunteers, survivors of the disease, to come forward with offers of their own blood. So far as results to date have been tabulated, the serum treatment seems a remedy for infantile paralysis if it is administered within the three days which ordinarily elapse between infection and actual paralysis...
From Sever to Emerson to New Fogg eastward the course of the Old Testament takes its way. Not even the demands of Divisional examinations, which may now be taken at almost any reason of the year, and consequently affect smaller groups of candidates, can account for the immense audiences which gather to hear Professor Lake's lectures on the Bible, Professor Kittredge on Shakespeare, Professor Lowes on the Romantic Poets, or any of the other men for whose meetings one must come early in order to secure a seat. Nor can any mere degree of scholastic fame, however just, however...
...fashions are part of history. And TIME reports history in the making, does it not ? During the last 20 years women's fashions have undone all the evil they did during 500 years. If men during the next 20 years make as much progress, men will have a reason for being proud of their sex. It is men nowadays who brush the dust off their shoes with their long pants. It is men who have to fasten innumerable buttons before their dress is complete. Fashions are no mean part of civilization. But report them as news...
Thus ends the play. In the intervening hour or so is spun the bitter story of a planter's lonely wife on the Malay Peninsula. There is no moral pointed, except perhaps that love sometimes dies young and for no reason. Leslie Crosbie was not a wholly vicious woman. Throughout the story, which ends in her confession that she shot her lover Hammond because he was living with a Chinese woman, she strangles truth lest her husband find out her guilt and the discovery break his heart. After the first few moments her every move is to spare from...