Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since all of the collectors have not yet reported to chairman C. D. Whidden '23, the present slow progress seems to be the result of incomplete canvassing. This condition the Committee will try to remedy with another letter to be sent out to all collectors within...
...stage was 15 or 20 years ago, when 'Ten Nights in a Bar-Room' and 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' were popular. These plays are gone today, and the second-rate motion pictures will be gone tomorrow. There is one thing that makes changes in the motion pictures very slow,--every picture must appeal to every class of audience. The film that is shown on Broadway must also be shown at the five-cent theatre in the country. On the other hand, the speaking play caters only to the more or less educated audiences in the larger cities, and therefore...
...comfortable margin of three lengths at the finish line. Although Crew B, getting away to a perfect start, shot ahead for a few strokes at the beginning, the advantage was of short duration and the first University boat steadily increased its lead to the end. The time was rather slow, but this may be attributed to the rough surface of the basin, a sharp cross wind serving to make the water choppy to such an extent that anything like smooth rowing was impossible...
...undergraduate as a whole carries on as before. The 'News', in the same number with its editorial on the Phi Beta Kappa matter, prints front page articles on the election of a wrestling captain and the progress of the crews on the Housatonic (this last was reported slow). There is also a traditional plea for the existence of the academic grass as against informal baseball...
...usual the most important and most successful work of the Social Service Committee. This opportunity for college men to help in settlement work in Boston and vicinity is one of the greatest which Phillips Brooks House extends. Handicapped through lack of experience the Secretary has been rather slow in getting under way, but reports of this work received by telephone and mail have been very assuring of the good work done by Harvard...