Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...increasing trend toward concentration in Economics shown in the recently published figures of the Committee on the Choice of Electives might at first appearances seem to indicate an increased desire on the part of college men to be well acquainted with modern affairs. But unfortunately many of these men are interested in Economics because they believe it to be an open sesame to a fortune or else a direct preparation for the Law and Business School. Such narrowing influences should be avoided...
...years to the cult of chamber music. Now the Lener is one of the world's first string organizations. In Manhattan last fortnight its tender, lush playing of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven won noisy approval from the audience, superlatives from critics; made recent performances by the London String Quartet seem over-fastidious, bloodless by comparison. The Roth Quartet, however, also from Budapest, remains for most critics unrivaled for its flawless finesse...
...decorative, at times amusing combination of drawing-room farce and Balkan operetta. Chevalier does well with songs that would be dull under less skillful handling. Director Ernst Lubitsch has arranged handsome scenes? marching grenadiers, palaces hung with cascades of stairs, a royal wedding in which flowers, lace and plumes seem blown into the set from pealing organ stops and braying horns. Neither this background nor the heavy-footed dialog is well adapted to the natural technique, essentially informal and Parisian, of M. Chevalier. Lubitsch too, who has in the past shown propensities for wit, seems at a disadvantage with...
...Yard been decided upon. It has been suggested, however, that those dormitories will be used by members of the Freshman class, prior to their entering into one of the Houses. It was pointed out in the CRIMSON during the discussion last year that such an arrangement would seem to be not only practicable in relation to the mechanics of the House Plan but would be most advantageous from the point of view of the Freshmen. If tradition, associations and atmosphere can have any hold upon the undergraduate, there should be no better time than at the beginning of the college...
...isolated examples not substantiated by sufficient evidence, based, in some instances, on not more than one speci- men. These he lists as extreme variants of a type. Some of these genera are differentiated by such characteristics as length of hair and length of beard which do not seem to him fundamental because specimens from the same limited regions present such wide variation in these respects...