Word: usual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard might conceivably exploit the idea. The attractiveness of Memorial Hall could be enhanced by casual statues of local celebreties performing their usual functions; an obelisk glorifying the American old clothes man, a genre subject portraying a Senior preparing for Divisionals, tennis racquet in one hand and theatre tickets in the other; portrait of a Freshman donning last season's white flannels for this year's Jubilees; whole flocks of pathetic sublimities are available. But there would be conscientious objectors who would remonstrate that architecture was being over-emphasized, the certain things could will be omitted from eternal memory...
...this year, 1926-27, students concentrating in the Division of Biology may choose either taking the usual final examinations in courses within the field of concentration or taking a general examination on the subject matter in the field on concentration...
Candidates for the degree in 1928, either at midyear or in June may choose as was permitted this year, between the usual final examinations and a General Examination. Beginning in 1929, the General Examination will be required of all candidates...
...husband suspects less tender motives. The big scene looks as if it were pitching for tragedy. But that impulse cracks in the middle of the last act, and the playwright pastes on a happy ending, including love, faith and a wholesome dose of moral retribution. Miss Brady, as usual, ably projects her emotional scenes. But she, like any other performer who would essay the role, looks ridiculous in the heaping portions of lovey-dovey that were just too darling about the last fringe of the Victorian period but smell even more pungent than camphor balls...
...they are honest. They tell William Henry Haskell IV that he must win Sara or she may run off with Siercy Hodd some day; as she does, to the usual hotel in Atlantic City. Greedy and spoiled though they are, they are captivating ladies, this author and heroine?up to a point...