Word: solider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most modern methods will be tried in scenery, costumes, and lighting, of which the most noteworthy will be the three dimensional stage. The scenery, which has been designed by D. M. Oenslager '23, instead of the usual painted back-drop and wings, is made with stairways, arches, and solid masses, so that the perspective is greatly improved, and the grouping and interpretive movement of the characters is more effective...
...other side. Men having twelve o'clock as well as one-thirty classes are perhaps ten to each hundred who have afternoon classes but not twelve o'clocks. For the hundred, thirty extra minutes at the lunch hour are no gain, while the same time taken from the solid afternoon is a direct loss to study or athletics. And even for the ten, half-hour lunches are such an American commonplace that the extra time will hardly be appreciated. Unless the faculty's motives are more subtle than they admit, the change in afternoon hours cannot be approved wholeheartedly...
This means, among other things, that Japan will occupy the Liaotung peninsula for another 50 years, whereas China maintains that the leases on this strip of land terminate next Tuesday. No power on earth can put Japan out except a gigantic, solid Chinese army. An army China will have if it takes 50 years to get. So runs public opinion on the Oriental mainland...
...distributing scholarships rather more freely and generously than any other graduate schools. This practice, says Dean Sperry, "has been criticized as the beginning of the pauperization of the ministry, and as at variance with the whole trend of the modern church, which is trying to set the ministry upon solid ground of economic independence and self-respect. It is further felt", he says, "that the more generous and indiscriminate the scholarship awards, the less resourceful and desirable the type of man who responds to such an appeal". By awarding fewer and larger scholarships, he says, the school proposes to make...
Upon the time honored rock bottom of caste distinctions and the pride of the landed aristocracy Mr. Galsworthy has reared a solid superstructure of melodrama in the "Eldest Son", well constructed, as might be expected from the authorship, and free to a large degree from the usual Galsworthy flair...