Word: yes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yes, rather I believe I am acquainted with her terrible grammar. As a matter of fact, personally, I am very much against vers libnre and all that sort of thing. Of course I admit Walt Whitman was a very great man; but I insist that metre is not an unnatural thing, but an extremely natural thing, like the sing-song of a child, you know, kicking his heels against a wall...
...those who ride on the buses because they can smoke on the upper deck, and the opinions of those who object to have smoke, fire, and ashes in their eyes and hair are all set down in a pleasantly written and charmingly printed booklet by the coach company. Ah, yes! As charming and pleasant a pirate booklet as ever scuttled-one of the pleasures of the world...
Someone will now probably exclaim that the college offers ample opportunity for afternoon and evening work without conflict with meals. Yes, but think of those with a talent for music who can only get positions in cafes and restaurants over the supper hour. It is a singular fact that instead of being a small minority, this class of needy students is of considerable size each year...
...this morning's CRIMSON is not alone in his decrial of the new policy of the Harvard Glee Club. When Dr. Davison and his followers decided last autumn that "Australia" and "Gridiron King" had outworn their welcome as constant features on the concert programs, the instant accusation was raised. "Yes, the Glee Club has turned high-brow. They won't sing anything but classical stuff." Graduates became worried about the fate of a chorus from Cambridge that did not sing Fair Harvard upon every possible occasion, and that had fallen in with the spirit of the times in excerpting from...
...school or college should have its teaching done almost exclusively by recent graduates of the same school or college who are not teachers and who serve short terms. West Point, so far as its teachers are concerned, breeds in and in, a very bad practice for any educational institution." Yes, most of the teachers at West Point are graduates of the Academy. They have been "through the mill" as cadets and have proved efficient teachers. Moreover, they are not teachers in the ordinary sense of the word. True, they are thorough masters of their respective subjects; but they are merely...