Word: working
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three days of the week, it began on the following Monday. On Saturday half of the Freshmen had not been provided with a tutor in Greek. At my midday meal on Saturday, my brother, then a tutor in mathematics, brought me an oral order from the President to begin work on Monday. Obviously the President had nourished till the fifty-ninth minute of the eleventh hour the hope of finding somebody else...
...President's office states that funds anonymously provided enable the College to proceed at once with the construction of a building to be located on the site of the former rink at the east end of the Alumni Gymnasium. President Ernest M. Hopkins in making the announcement said that work on the rink would be rushed in order that the varsity and freshman squads may occupy the building at the start of the hockey season...
...appearance.' Of the magenta handkerchiefs bought for the crew in which he rowed, he said that, though they were the origin of Harvard crimson, the color was purely accidental; 'it might just as well have been blue.' Of a proposal to dispense with all grades for records of students' work, reporting nothing but 'passed' or 'failed' he said. 'I fear that it would subject our students to too great a strain on their higher motives.' Of a hot-tempered professor, he observed, 'You know, Mr. Briggs, that it is easy to touch a match to him.' I remember his showing...
...music, he second number will be especially noteworthy. Professor Josten of Smith is a composer and conductor of recognised prowess. His bent is toward the primitive and naturalistic, rather than the mechanistic, and the subject of his selection is one in which he can revel. The suggestion of the work came from the series of jungle paintings by Henri Rousseau, French expresisonist, whose simplicity and lack of the artificial form both a point of departure and a goal for Professor Josten's composition: The music is neither based strictly on African themes and rhythms, nor is it entirely subjective...
Jeanne Eagles, the star of "Jealousy" failed to show the brilliance which characterized her screen work in "The Letter" She plays the part of a wife who is supporting herself and her husband on the money supplied her by a former lover. The inevitable occurs; her husband suspects that the former relationship is not entirely terminated, and in an insanely jealous mood murders the man whom he realizes is ruining the happiness of his home...