Word: strangerness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bostonians themselves acknowledge, with what pride they can assume, that they are peculiar. In no way is their eccentricity more obvious than at the play. For on such occasions, there is apparent a phenomenon as incomprehensible to the stranger as it seems to be natural to the native. When the fair heroine is sobbing with all the lachrymose exertions that lie within her dramatic command, when the aged squire is struck dead from behind with an axe, or when, at the w. k. psychological moment, a wailing babe is introduced as evidence, then the audience takes its cue to shake...
...that it provides for a broader source of information in choosing men to carry on the work next term; the advantage of allowing the Seniors to choose their advisees is obvious for much more can be accomplished by one who knows the Freshman assigned to him than by a stranger...
...graduate student at a large university often feels himself a stranger within the gates. The question of uniting him more closely to his foster-mother is handled in an editorial admirable for its understanding of the situation and for the remedy it proposes. It deserves serious consideration by all graduate students, and by undergraduates as well...
There is the same weakness in the system of senior advisers. In most cases the advise is a perfect stranger to the senior; he cannot really help the Freshman to any great extent unless they are old friends; only if the Freshman can trust and have confidence in his adviser, can the system be effective...
...University, or to hear some prominent speaker, to be partially suffocated whenever they do so? This condition certainly does not aid athletic meetings; for how can one cheer when he is having difficulty in breathing; and who is going to be ready to repeat the experience? A stranger, watching the hopeless overcrowding at the Union Tuesday evening would certainly ask. "Why don't they hold such meetings in a hall of adequate size?" And those familiar with Harvard would have to answer, "We have no hall of adequate size, or even any approaching adequate size; in fact, the Union...