Word: sureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Discussion about education inevitably comes back to the educator. Not all the problems of the modern university, to be sure, but a great many of them, would be solved if only the magic formula for producing great teachers could be discovered. Comment of this sort, at all times prolific, has recently taken a more than usually practical turn in a burst of critical examination of the University's graduate school from which come many of the country's and not a few of Harvard's own prominent educators...
...short time ago someone told me that he was sure that there were no fraternities of Harvard Since they were no prealert elsewhere this seemed very different and interesting to me I would appreciate an account of the chance as well as the reason for dispensing with them...
Tonight at 7.30 o'clock the curtain will rise at the Boston Opera House on "Die Walkure," the Harvard Night production for 1926. The opera, which has long been a favorite with Boston audiences, is always sure to draw a full house and with the cooperation of the University Music Department the Chicago Civic Company is doubly sure of a record breaking audience. The ticket agencies are already sold out and there is every indication that even the standing room quota will be filled...
...other while they listen to what the lady in the row behind is saying it is no use attempting to sing. On the other hand when it is obvious that the orchestra and balconies are filled by college students I am sure that the performance will be a success. The college boys have no ulterior reasons for coming. If they pay to take their friends to the theatre it is because they expect to enjoy themselves, and knowing that, the singers are able to give of their best...
Strange prodigies foretold that he was destined to no ordinary way of life. The gargoyles on Memorial Hall were heard to laugh and shriek at midnight, and the ghost of Punch was seen in broad daylight astride an ibis in Mt. Auburn Street. And sure enough, as years went by, the fact was oft remarked that young Lampoon was not a common child. For hours he'd ponder over some inanity, and then would roar with laughter at his own conceit. And this, together with his marked plebeian tendencies and over-strong aversion to the Irish nation, got it whispered...