Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More evidence, if more is needed, that the undergraduate at Harvard is becoming also, and primarily, a student, may be drawn from the serious decline this year in the number of men who have reported for social service at the Phillips Brooks House. Descending from a peak of over four hundred in 1921 to half that amount last year, the number dropped this fall, according to Mr. McTurnan, the social service secretary, to 160 men. Despite all that has been done to interest students in work that is said to pay richly in human experience, the thirty-five settlement houses...
...Cabinet further sponsors minor law court and agricultural reforms, and observes that, while the condition of certain industries causes "serious anxiety," there are signs of "progressive improvement" in home and foreign trade...
...boys what they were when we were there?" The Old Boys had been hearing rumors that "thundermugs" are never thundered on the Gym roof at The Hill nowadays; that "The Coffee-Colored Angel," "Doc" MacNooder and J. Humperdink Stover have no modern counterparts at Lawrenceville; that schoolboys today are Serious, Responsible, Self-governing, Mature...
...SERIOUS...
Other well regarded serious plays are: ESCAPE, CAPONSACCHI; Civic Repertory Theatre Productions; BEHOLD, THE BRIDEGROOM...