Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock tomorrow, when there will be a competition open to all undergraduates. Two speakers and an alternate are to be chosen for each team. Because of the short time remaining before the two debates, candidates will be chosen as soon as possible, and the work of serious preparation started. The question is one which offers abundant opportunity for witty, argumentation and repartee, and by its very nature is expected to attract a large number of aspiring speakers...
...declare that TIME'S sense of humor is utterly unique in my experience. Your coupon was a prize example of it. I should never suggest that your readers are primarily attracted by your sense of humor, for of course your intent and achievements are primarily sober and serious. None the less, some line of witty perception should be discernible in a group of, how many is it now, 85,000? . . . My filled-in coupon misrepresents a situation to this extent: there is "in my family" a "female TIME reader aged 50 to 60"-my wife. But as you probably...
...more serious are other faults in the book. Mr. Gorman loves sweeping statements, many of which seem to come near exaggerations. When he remarks in summing up the poet's work, "Not once have the deep springs of life been touched in living verse," there seems to be room for a saving, "Well, hardly ever...
...choose, or feel able, to write? Some of the poet's letters show clearly that he believed in reticence where his deepest feelings were involved, that one's heart was not to be worn upon one's sleeve. This may have been a defect in his nature, and a serious deficiency in an artist, but certainly it invalidates an attempt to discover from what he set down in black and white all that he was in his most secret heart...
...attitude of first year men toward their work means is shown by the circumstance that thirty seven per cent of last year's class is out of the School. This year I do not intend to wait until June to weed out those who have no place in a serious professional school...