Word: wave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them, Copey; yes, and more. For some were fired with an ambition to voyage those roaring oceans of the imagination in caravels of their own; and some there were who aspired to master the stops and manuals of this great organ of the English speech until they could send wave on wave of music pealing through the naves and transepts of that most vast of all cathedrals--the Cathedral of the Human Spirit.... And these little flames of talent Copey, the lamp-lighter, tended faithfully (albeit somewhat brusquely on occasion, yet with his Jeremiads over a bad sentence over savored...
...divisionals are a very remote and unthreatening hazard. What is of great and immediate importance is University Hall's record of grades. Tutorial work is therefore naturally the first to suffer when a student finds himself pressed for time, and that is always. The drowning sailor thinks of the wave which threatens to engulf him at the moment, not of one which may do so two, three, or four hours hence...
...wave of criticism? Its outstanding feature is that it does not center in any one big issue, but in a number of little ones, and is mainly a symptom of general irritation. Harvard men have got the notion,--perhaps it was the foot-ball season which put in into their heads that their University is losing ground, and not knowing the situation fully are a prey to exaggerated fears. They are worrying about all sorts of things that aren't so: the other day a loyal graduate complained to me about the need of changing the policy of a certain...
...Majestic. The Marxians are so very funny, and the rest of the performance is so extremely dull that, It is difficult to see the music; save as foils. Once the four brothers get under way, however, the complementary portions of the revue are swept along on a tidal wave of applause...
...been more or less conscious that a complete knowledge of the affairs of the University would silence a host of worried critics. This knowledge has never been forthcoming. Neither alumni nor student body has been taken into the confidence of the administration. Mr. Allen writes that the present wave of criticism is "mainly a symptom of general irritation," and in the next sentence unconsciously indicates the cause. A loyal graduate, he says, complained "about the need of changing the policy of a certain department, and was relieved to hear that it had already been changed two years ago!" Obviously...