Word: woven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would never think, to look at its present neglect, that there is more noble history woven about Holden Chapel than about any other Harvard building. For the first hundred years after the college was founded there was no chapel. Then, in 1741, Mrs. Jane Holden of London made a gift of four hundred pounds "to build a Chapple for the Use of ye College...
...last Report, President Lowell wrote: "There is now intention of gradually substituting tutorial work for courses of instruction.... They must by experience be woven together into one fabric, not inharmonious but each dependent for its best results upon the other." Quite so; but the matter is that there can be no harmonious development as long as the present over-emphasis on grades is maintained. it is an iron band which ruthlessly stunts the growth of the tutorial system. There are not two strong and harmonious systems; there is in fact only one, and that one crushes by its dead weight...
...Starving in England at the same time is Lord Menford. To frighten off the wolf, Lord Menford sells to this heiress his estate, "catches a bun" the next night and is delivered to his ancient gates. Thereupon they are marooned together for two nights and a day. Woven through this inconsequential thesis is a variety of vigorous by-play and device. Miss Talmadge is excellent as usual and is aided immensely in her pantomime by the brilliant support supplied by Ronald Colman. Director Sidney Franklin has done a neatly knit and thoroughly ingenious...
...last great Western herd," driven from the ranges by the squatter settlers, on its way to wider grazing lands in Mexico. In other words, the twilight of the old West. The idea and the purpose were commendable but the endless appearances of thousands of cows simply became monotonous. Woven roughly into the migration was the love story of the head cowboy and a girl whose cabin on the plains was wrecked in a stampede...
...plot is an involved attempt to marry a servant to a wealthy old woman. Various subplots and small intrigues are woven in, solely concerned with love or its prevalent imitation. The cast was rather carelessly thrown together with no notable performance offered...