Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...serious obstacle in this step would be the problem of dining hall accommodations for the new residents of the Yard. The Harvard Union, as it is at present or with an annex, would be unsatisfactory. The unsavory reputation of Memorial Hall as a dining hall, its distance from most Yard dormitories, its uncongenial atmosphere, and the amount of money it would take to equip it satisfactorily, seem more than to offset the advantage of having the entire class eat together. Small dining halls on the first floor of buildings like Harvard Hall, for example, present another alternative...
...Williams is true, it is not the fault of those who are ignorant, but of those who refuse to alleviate this ignorance, that the House plan, shrouded in suspicious darkness, has met with more opposition than the interview would lead one to believe. It was a serious mistake to acquaint undergraduates and graduates with such a momentous innovation by means of sensational rumors and fictitious scoops prompted by newspaper rivalry. It is not too late to instruct more thoroughly those interested in the plan and its purpose...
Professor James Sturgis Pray '95, head of the School of Landscape Architecture for nearly 20 years, passed away Friday at his home in Cambridge. There had been no confining illness, and the change was sudden and without serious pain. Services will be held in Appleton Chapel this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock by Reverend C. R. Eliot. Classes in the School of Landscape Architecture will be suspended after 12 o'clock...
...Redeeming Sin (Warner) is good comedy. That it was intended as a serious picture did not keep tolerant first-night audiences from chuckling happily at a cast of Parisian underworldlings who talk in the manner of the English nobility-rat Dolores Costello demanding "the jewels"; at Conrad Nagel who, told that his sweetheart has married in his absence, exclaims: "Then I'm too late!"; at a sister shaking a dying boy to bring him back to life; at the Hollywood conception of a Paris sewer; at a supposedly French priest reciting the Lord's Prayer with an Irish...
...will scarcely be tempted to flirt with trouble by writing for the newspapers. His family likes having a first-rate sportsman in the family and he is afforded ample time and allowance to play and practice. He arrived at the Brooklyn tournament fresh from four months of serious tennis training in California. "The only thing," said an oldtime linesman watching the Van Ryn-Tilden match, "that can stop that lad is some blame girl. I hope he's a constitutional bachelor...