Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grow, or will even hold the ground gained last year over any length of time? The factors which heighten the popularity of a college in the minds of preparatory school students are not easy to determine. At Harvard the publicity attendant upon the institution of the House Plan, the superior financial position in time of depression, and the success of many of the athletic teams in recent years, can be cited as plausible explanations. But may it not be that the rising wave of popularity evidenced last spring was but the upswing of a cyclical movement which will sooner...
Because of something recognizably superior in the Arliss personality, one finds a peculiarly human atmosphere in all his films. The author of "Up from Blooms bury" has an inherent gift that makes it not only believable but transparently natural that, for instance, an assassin who took some rather inaccurate pistol shots at him in the first part of the show, should later stand amongst an admiring crowd, reverently whispering "The king, the kind...
...Upstairs Common room of the Union at 7 o'clock tonight, the Harvard Freshman debating team will meet Exeter. The subject of the debate is: "Resolved: That only students of superior ability be admitted to the Liberal Arts Colleges." The members of the Harvard team, which will take the affirmative, are: Lewis Perry, Jr. '36, A. G. Sullivan '36, and as alternate, F. E. Sweetser...
...Undeniably, a knowledge of classical culture is not essential is civilization and its disappearance would not cause any radical changes in the nature of things. I would not even say that classical forms of Hievature are always superior to modern once. The subject which is to be expressed must decide that. Some ideas are more suitable to modern expression, some to classical. There can be no fixed rule. However, as students get on in life, they will see the difference between men who have had training in the classics and those who have not for such training results...
...subject of the Exeter debate which occurs Friday, February 24, is "Resolved: That only students of superior mental ability be admitted to the Liberal Arts Colleges." These selected for this debate after the Union tryouts last night are Lewis Perry, Jr. '36, R. M. Cohen '36, A. G. Sullivan '36, and as alternate, F. E. Sweetser...