Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thing, however, the undergraduate body has a right to demand--a frank statement of the relation between captain and coach and rowing committee and of the position which each will occupy. In the past adverse criticism has been centered on these questions of relation and position and a situation in which it was believed that the coach was too much sub-ordinated was blamed for 'Harvard's repeated failures. A frank exposition of the present situation is not only an act of justice to the undergraduate body but is the only way to establish confidence in the new regime...
...change the present order into one of production fitted to the "human needs of the producer" as well as the community would mean practically a return to the family producing unit, long since discarded as impossible for sustaining life. Finally, repudiating personal gain as an economic motive is a thing more easily said than done. At present that is admitted to be the most powerful force at work in turning the wheels of industry. Unless some other force is found to replace the desire for personal gain when it is repudiated, the wheels will of necessity turn slowly and unsteadily...
...Taking the Veil, 18-year-old Edna is very unhappy. She thought she loved Jimmy, but last night she went to the theatre and fell in love with an actor. Of course the only thing left for her to do is to take the veil. Then she realizes as she pictures a death in the odor of sanctity that she really does love Jimmy after...
...press laid playful stress upon the circumstance that de Pachmann candidly informed the ship news reporters who interviewed him that he was the world's greatest pianist, that beside him the other virtuosos of the instrument of keys and hammers were sorry fellows. He likewise essayed the unusual thing of giving his critical rating of his fellow artists-Paderewski a good pianist but not a great one; likewise Busoni and Rosenthal; Godowsky a good technician; Rachmaninoff a third rater; Josef Hofmann not a great pianist, although he plays well at times. These divertissements were laid...
...music that goes with cinemas, frightful as it usually is, has an especial place and rather a distinguished place in esthetics. Nowhere is music so utterly necessary as in cinemas. Plays are set to music, but plays can be given without music. It is a curious thing that some sort of music has become necessary to the cinema. Somehow even at its very beginning the silent drama, in order to please its public (not an esthetic public), had to have sound. That sound was music. It is a common feeling with movie fans that a stretch of picture without music...