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...this trivial difference over phraseology, at least according to the Russian delegation, which has caused no end of trouble at Genoa. The Communist, who never admitted the right of private property in the first place, cannot understand how anyone can find anything extreme or unreasonable in "expropriation". When the other members of the family of nations demur, and refuse to allow their citizens in Russia to suffer by this piece of Bolshevik logic, M. Kakowsky and his colleagues assume the attitude of injured innocence...
...himself. Very few seem to take into consideration the fact that Harvard has given timely aid to Institute activities on several occasions. An example of this is the recent gift by Harvard of a shell for the use of our crews. To the uninitiated this may seem a trivial matter, but to Institute oarsmen, after being compelled to work for years with inadequate equipment, such a gift appears to be little short of a God-send. And then, again, Harvard has frequently supplied sweeps, judges, and timers for Technology crew races...
...Rollo's Wild Oat" is a farcical comedy in Clare Kummer's most trivial manner. When we leave the theatre after the performance, we do not feel that we have come away with any lasting impressions. Yet this play entertained Broadway for a large part of last season, and as a sweetmeat to whet the palate it is a tasty morsel. The action, although a little slow in starting, is brisk throughout the play, and the dialogue is often sparkling. The one real drawback is the lack of reality both in plot and treatment, but this quality is the privilege...
...teacher. Whether he were engaged in steering a Freshman section through the rocks and shoals that beset the approach to analytic geometry, or in guiding a graduate student in his research, he had an unerring instinct for picking out what was essential and vital, to the exclusion of the trivial and unimportant. His mathematical judgment was unerring, his advice on scientific questions was absolutely sound. No pains were too great to be expended on any student, his pupils had always the first claim to his time, and no one who applied in him for aid was even sent empty away...
...sharp pin and is pitiless to bubbles". The story is a miracle in execution--thoroughly Greek in its symmetry and close-knit restraint. The texture of it is like carefully and beautifully wrought music. The economy of art revealed on every page is amazing. No incident, no detail, however trivial it may seem, but serves its purpose and recurs, like a theme in music, to startle one with recollected beauty. It has an inevitable quality of phrase...