Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decision of the Cercle Francais to carry on entirely without the help of professional coaches or actors, prompted though it may have been by unpublished practical considerations, follows satisfactorily the tendency on the part of undergraduate activities toward a purer amateurism. Such technical guidance as may be necessary is amply provided for in the participation of a few experienced graduate students interested enough to offer the value of their knowledge in exchange for a return intrinsic in the activities themselves. The consequent removal of an authority made fearsome by its measurement in dollars and cents injects a healthy consciousness...
...various spheres of activity in the College. Through treatment of the subject by competent speakers and discussion with the general body of men present at the meeting, the P. B. H. Cabinet hopes to explain its aims clearly and to arrive at a fuller understanding of the student attitude toward...
...close of Carlton's introduction two prominent undergraduates who are not connected with the Phillips Brooks House will speak briefly, stating the typical undergraduate viewpoint toward the association, and criticising, from that viewpoint, the execution of the purposes...
These are among the methods by which Philips Brooks House is seeking toward its goal of service. But spirit can accomplish little without the flesh of genuine support. It must be granted that the ordinary undergraduate feels a certain desire to escape the memories of over-assiduous home-town charities and clubs, and that the less worthy, as well as the more worthy of these, wear the name of religion. Whether one approves or not, the contemporary attitude is distinctly not religious; and in the belief that P. B. H. is fundamentally religious, and therefore slightly emasculated, lies much...
...Manhattan. Soprano Gertrude Kappel, famed for her Wagner, hurried in a taxi toward the Waldorf-Astoria where she was to sing for 1,000 clubwomen. Clubwomen waited but Singer Kappel's cab had crashed into another, she had been thrown from the seat, jounced on the floor. Thirty-five minutes later she entered the Waldorf ballroom. Bruised, she sang...