Word: slightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...correcting the situation has never been explained. It has aready seen a vast sum go into the installation of a particularly fine organ. It is constantly laying out more money for the maintenance of a full-sized choir. If there are absolutely no funds on hand to make the slight improvements suggested, some statement to this effect should be forthcoming. But for the University to continue to ignore this problem is equivalent to its refusing to make the most of the opportunities which are offered by the facilities and the choir...
...York Evening Post began to print his work, Westbrook Pegler was better known in Chicago than in the East. Since 1920 he has lived at Pound Ridge, Conn. Possibly because most of his neighbors have remodeled Colonial farmhouses, Pegler's is an adaptation of a Bavarian chalet. Slight, wiry, sandy-haired, he plays atrocious golf, drives his car like the coal man. Before their marriage his attractive wife was Julia Harpman, star crime reporter on the New York Daily News. His father, Arthur Pegler, is still the New York Daily Mirror's ablest rewrite...
...might be, and that George M. Cohan carries the play by himself, making the evening quite pleasant. The greatest contemporary American play-wright,--so I have heard--Eugene O'Neill, has a difficult task in maintaining his reputation. When he was in Provincetown, he was comparatively unknown. He wrote slight one act plays for a while which still have a few followers. Then came success with a series of popular plays, but he was rarely heralded by critics as the foremost dramatist until he reached the psycho-analytical period. Here he reached the peak with "Strange Interlude." Soldier, sailor, tinker...
Harvard is certainly not in this class. Very few of its employees work under conditions beyond the pale of NRA standards. This has led some people to say that a slight rise in costs would be well worth risking for the sake of making a patriotic gesture. But if Harvard is at one end of the ladder, at the other end are such colleges as Piedmont, whose altruistic faculty serves enlightenment to the Appalachian hill-billies in return for potatoes, pumpkins, and watermelons. It would be a gesture costly to the cause of education if Harvard were to arouse prejudice...
...student's art club should be an exclusively Harvard society, and the undergraduates would be able to take more than a slight interest in it. In its own field it might be comparable to the Inquiry, or the political clubs. Perhaps it might be possible to hold exhibitions in the common rooms of the Houses and the Union, an economical scheme that has the further advantage of bringing the residents into closer and more leisured contact with the works on exhibition...