Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the awards of the Guggenheim Fellowships, announced early in the week, was one to Countee Cullen, the Negro poet. Cullen who received an A.M. degree at Harvard two years ago, will use the fellowship to go to Paris to complete a series of narrative poems and the libretto for an opera. He is looked upon as one of the best modern poets to maintain the classical tradition. He is a contributor to Harper's and the Herald-Tribune "Books...
...Harvard cafeteria near the square recently multiplied its revenues by employing a band to entertain its patrons. For years the Hollywood director has made use of music to spur the actors to greater emotional heights on the principle that music has charms which do more than soothe. It remained for the ever ingenious French nation to apply the principle yet further...
...that is fitted to meet the unusual conditions produced by a well nigh universal demand for higher education. President Lowell has stated several times that Harvard is not working towards the organization of Oxford and Cambridge as a goal when it adopts certain of their features, but will make use only of those things that seem adaptable. The same applies to the other institutions of Europe. The older universities will retain for some time the attractions of age and tradition and thereby attract a limited number of graduate students, but no longer can they hope to secure dominance...
...generally known that dietetic authorities minimize the use of meat, and a great many exclude it from the diet altogether. The least one can do, in justice to himself, is to minimize meat. Accordingly, we, through research and on the advice of eminent authorities, are disposed to offer to the public a list of foods that are chosen for their dietetic value and scientifically prepared, in order that we may have the ultimate satisfaction of seeing that the public benefits by this highly intelligent doctrine. Therefore, we repeat the phrase which has already been stated-Man is made of what...
Many of the paintings are noticeably of the present generation in their use of subtly-varied grays, with occasional accents of stronger color, in reaction to the intense broken color used by the impressionists to express a naturalistic effect of light. As compared with most American and British painting done in the same vein, there is a pleasant lightness of touch in most of these pictures. After our over-seriousness, even the obvious "fooling" in examples like the "Europa" and the "View of the Seine" are a delightful relief...