Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dean Wilmot B. Mitchell of Bowdoin College, in the remarks which are at Bowdoin regularly attached to the report of the President, cautions the American college against surrender to the Oxford movement. If the movement be foreign in operation as well as origin to the educational idea, American style, it should be stamped out immediately, for no disease has proven more contagious. But at Harvard, which may be considered the seat of heresy, the weaknesses of transplanting have proved to be not hereditary from the native soil of England, but peculiar to a loam that has been badly sanded...
...theatre notes and book reviews are handled in a pleasing and capable manner. The theatre notes deserve particular praise. Mr. Page is following in admirable style the high standards set by his predecessor in this department...
...week, from TIME'S letters, especially from such diverting ones as that of John H. Hammond Jr., (May 7). This lad must be very Junior indeed; the sophomoric conceit fairly oozes from him. The prospect of your losing Mr. Hammond Jr.'s patronage, "unless you change your style or start a phonographic record department" must present a saddening alternative. Incidentally, our Junior's use of such verbal banalities as "quite a few," "Variety has far more than you" and so on, emphasizes the nerve of him, in assuming the role of Mentor to TIME in the matter...
...rest of us hope that TIME will mercifully refrain from forming its style on Mr. Hammond Jr.'s model? We might stand for the canned music department, but not for the other...
...work of Mr. Coolidge or of his firm is embodied in the question which naturally arises: is it best for Harvard to be planned by one architect in these years of material development? Harvard is so architecturally heterogeneous that any attempt to make it all Georgian in style is unnecessary and sometimes unfortunate. The architectural style of Massachusetts Hall is not naturally adapted to such large blocks of brick and mortar as Widener Library, designed by Trumbauer fifteen years ago, or the new chemical laboratory...