Word: token
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rash enough during Boston's annual two weeks of opera, when musical Boston gravitates or is supposed to gravitate towards the Opera House, to offer concerts to a public already well on its way to satiety. Yet there are managers who will risk such concerts and by the same token there is even now an audience for them. Any doubts on this subject were dispelled last night when Mme. Eva Gauthier sang to an audience that almost filled Jordan Hall at the same time Mary Garden was singing "Louise", in the Opera House. Mme. Gauthier showed a sense of humor...
Mary, Britain's domestic queen, universally beloved for her interest in better housing of the poor, is to receive the most magnificent doll's house ever made as a token of affection from her subjects. Sir Edwin L. Lutyens, designer of the Cenotaph, London's great war memorial, conceived the idea, enlisted the coöperation of the greatest artists and artisans in England to carry it out. The house is a miniature model of a completely furnished royal palace, eight feet high, and everything in it is on a scale of one inch to a foot...
...woman's college has become no longer a sinecure but a position of great responsibility and labor. Because of this very labor and the time necessary for it, the University must feel selfishly glad that dean Briggs will henceforth not have his interests divided. And by the same token, Radcliffe should receive more constant attention from a head solely responsible to Radcliffe. Dean Comstock brings with her a reputation for scholastic soundness and administrative ability. The CRIMSON extends its hearty good wishes for the success of the new president...
...Earl of Derby, his racing partner; the Hon. William Lambton, famed trainer; Colonel James Forbes. Bequests of about $1,000 go to each of 50 of Earl Farquhar's "dear friends in the hope that they will accept them in the spirit I have made them, as the token of my affection, and that they will buy a remembrance of me." Provision is also made for other friends, his stepchildren, his sister's family and his servants...
History shows that movements for ameliorating the state of society have generally drawn their inspiration and first impetus from Youth. And by the same token these movements, on account of the impatience and lack of wisdom of their prime movers, have more often than not fallen on stony ground and come to naught. According to Mr. Rothschild's article in the present issue the Youth of Europe are now prosecuting with vigor such a movement toward renovation of their economic states. Apparently the movement has thus far no coherence beyond a kind of common program which is made up more...