Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...former CRIMSON president, spends eleven pages of text and pictures describing life and atmosphere about the Square. He reaches the conclusion that local buildings which can be safely overlooked are "Memorial Hall, a Victorian-Gothic monstrosity built to commemorate Civil War dead, and the Lampoon Building, built for no reason...
There is a reason for this ecstatic epithet, for Mrs. Coolidge has done more than any American, perhaps anyone in the world, to popularize and encourage this art. More than, that she has had a real influence on the course of music in the twentieth century. One critic wrote of her concerts, "They have become a sort of musical weathervane. They show us how the mind is set in contemporary music...
...Cliffe students from using its facilities. However, the author of the letter is attacking this problem with the same immaturity that she accuses us and our administration of having. Her "name-calling" was rather amusing but very unimpressive. The more mature way of dealing with this error would be reason rather than "name-calling." I might propose that "Miss Name Withheld" get a majority of the 'Cliffe students behind her and induce their administration, by petition, to open negotiations with our administration to correct this wrong. If they are really serious in their convictions, I am certain that many...
...main reason for the spiriting away and destruction of bluebooks is time. It is a long and tiring process for the grader or instructor to answer the often foolish gripes of a mass of unsatisfied undergraduates. But examining and answering these complaints and questions should be just as much a part of education as marking the exams, perhaps even more so. One chief aspect of effective learning is full knowledge of results; the Social Relations people have worked up some ingenious little experiments proving this...
There is nothing modern about modern church statuary. Roman Catholic churches everywhere are filled with mass-production plaster replicas that perpetuate igth Century traditions of prettiness and molasses-smoothness. One reason is that few parishes can afford to commission sculptures on their own. Instead they buy from manufacturers catering to a safely low denominator of public taste. In Paris, a row of shops along the Rue St.-Sulpice supplies the demand. In the U.S., it's Barclay Street, in downtown Manhattan...