Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when as many as 35 to 45 per cent of the undergraduates are involved. The necessity of the occasion demands that every University man and every friend of the University should at once become interested in this most vital need. When the Associated Harvard Clubs and the alumni really understand this deplorable and impossible condition of the Division of Chemistry, this committee believes that they will not rest until the situation is cured...
...costumes. Rarely has a play been set with the beauty and display of brilliance that one sees here. In fact, if the Moscow players can extract so much from a play of the type of Tolstoy's "Tsar Fyodor", and can hold an audience enthralled that does not understand the language, one looks forward eagerly to their playing of "The Lower Depths", "The Three Sisters", and "The Cherry Orchard...
...reluctant to talk English. He would rather talk no English than broken English. But many people underrate his knowledge of the language. You will find that Gatti knows about as much English as he wants to know. If a bore is talking to him in English, he does not understand the tongue at all. You will observe that when jokes in English are told before him, jokes with cunning plays of words, Gatti, when the point has been reached, smiles slyly to himself. Quite a prodigious fellow, this General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera House...
...cast a shadow on St. Peter's. "A fantastic story, revived by the Paris Tribune," said Rev. Dr. Antipple, President of the nonsectarian Protestant school on Monte Mario. " Our plans do not include the building of a monumental church. They have been approved by the city authorities. We understand the beauty of St. Peter's as much as does anyone else," said Dr. Antipple...
...control by the Rowing Committee puts a coach between Scylla and Charybdis. And obviously, to all who watched Saturday's race between University and Freshman crews, the Freshmen were distinctly better. But there are factors to be considered, which the layman, who demands not form but "guts", should understand before condemning this year's crew as hopeless...