Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed "cram" parlors were sacrosanct pillars of Harvard society and above the taint of investigation or suspicion. With the enrollment lists to these institutions growing steadily each year and with an annual scandal involving similarity of term themes among habitues, both the University and the Council have chosen a splendid occasion to launch this new drive against what may in time become a distinct detriment and danger. At present no one can point an accusing finger at the tutoring schools of Harvard Square and Mt. Auburn stating categorically that they constitute a harmful situation and tend to hurt rather than...
Your dramatization on the air of the story of Grace Bedell and Abraham Lincoln was splendid, a vivid and fitting tribute to the kindliness of that great man and a touching finale to the quiet drama of my grandmother's life...
...past the Law School has embodied the policy of splendid isolation. Even in the realm of higher learning no attempt has been made to bridge the gap between legal thinking and other branches of learning, such as history and philosophy, on which the law depends. President Conant's plan for "university professors", men who have all knowledge for their province, should widen the horizons of departments which have tended to inbreed and have lost the perspective that a broad intellectual outlook gives. For the Law School is not only a trade school for lawyers, but also a temple of legal...
...after a lecture, to Widener, where in the theatre collection is an exhibition of playbills and souvenirs of Gilbert & Sullivan operas so splendid and diverse as to dazzle even a Saturday morning's eye. Today this noble building seems to be pouring forth more treasures than can be seen by hurried mortals. Up the stairs, atrot, into the Harry Elkins room, to see the display of books on games and sports. Indeed today is the time to think about sports, with the sturdy sailors journeying from Maryland to fire their cannon into the Crimson ranks...
Dick Harlow, next introduced, talked of his appreciation of the backing of the press this fall. He mentioned the splendid spirit of the team, Captain Jim Gaffney particularly, and called George Hedblom "one of he finest examples of manhood I have known," mentioning his work this fall and his play, particularly, in the Holy Cross game last year when he made 12 tackles in 13 plays, and, weighing only 150 pounds, played against a 200 pounder...