Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...climax in the House Plan, which Edward S. Harkness, '97, has just made possible. In scholarship at Harvard President Lowell has held clear ideas, first to make the Harvard Bachelor's degree stand for high grade of work, and secondly to awaken student interest in scholarship for its own sake. He has, for instance, modernized the choice of studies, broadened the entrance requirements, built up student interest in Honor degrees and, perhaps most interesting of all, introduced the "general examinations" which are the hub on which Harvard now turns scholastically. The "reading period" at Harvard, an offshoot of the "general...
...teacher called me down before the whole class. I received no grade for the topic for she said it did not happen and was not possible. I told her it came from the magazine TIME, but it made no difference. Mother said I should write to you for the sake of my grade, hoping you could give me more information on the matter to convince my teacher. If you could I will appreciate it very much. MARIAN L. SHIELDS
...Another all-talking photograph of an old play is kept from being all talk by the intelligent acting of Ronald Colman. What does the bored British officer with the poetic eyes and the little mustache do when the gang catches him? Does he fight his way out for the sake of the lovely girl whose uncle is held captive in a house where anything might happen? You are quite safe in feeling assured that in all circumstances such an officer will behave as gallantry prescribes. Best shot: the effect of the fall of a spoon in the dining room...
...sake of the novel, Skippy s friends and relatives had to be given last names. So his mother is Mrs. Skinner and some of the others are collar buttons, Hecky (personification of juvenile persistence), Sooky (pathetic phlegm), Carol Sharon (Skippy's girl), Milkman Lovering. The place they live in is called Morrisville. The plot is Skippy's show, BULL RUN (admission by collar buttons), his troubles at school, his baseball team, his blood-curdling threats and how he loves Carol Sharon...
...Collins, traffic policeman. He chides her for reckless driving; she smiles, gives him a lift to his home in the Bronx. In conversational bicker, pleasantly casual, she touches upon the man her father wants her to marry; he warns her to drive carefully "for that guy's sake"-and for his. Next morning the cop's newspaper tells of her- death in a motor accident. Says the cop to himself: "I can't feel as bad as I think I do. I only seen her four or five times. I can't really feel this...