Word: thoroughly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...admit it; it makes the story of "Bunker Bean" as it appeared in the Saturday Evening Post seem all the better. But, shades of the Jewett Players and "Arms and the man," where comedy is really being played, what dialogue. Mr. F. E. P. '18 says there is thorough sagacity shown in the arrangement of the dialogue. There would have been if there had been nine-tenths less of it. And, as for the leading lady, Miss Shirley, whom F. E. P. '18 liked so well, will he please tell me what she said worth while outside of "perfectly ducky...
...Ruggles of Red Gap," also the work of this same man, fell flat, although it had possibilities, and this due to the poor dramatization. Lee Wilson Dodd, however, in the present case, has done his task well, for there is as much dramatic consistency shown as is necessary and thorough sagacity in the arrangement of the dialogue. One rule which has been wisely followed is that of moderation and restraint, and the result is that the taste of caricature and burlesque of some twentieth century humans wins. The modern business man and his family receive a goodly share of these...
...character on a basis of proportional representation among all the states than could other universities. Certainly it is much more nearly national in this respect than are the large universities of the West, who draw very largely from the states in which they are located, but who cannot entice thorough representation from the East. The statistical title is one for statisticians to determine; the real claim to rank as our most national university will depend upon an institution's grasp of the spirit that should live in American nationalism and of its ability to consider the interests of all sections...
...coached since 1908. It has travelled further than any other Harvard team of recent years. Yet without the sound football system which Mr. Haughton and his assistants have provided this year's team would have had very little chance of finding itself. It is the tradition of thorough training, unrelenting attention to detail and absolute concert of effort which makes Harvard's veterans invincible and even her unpromisingly green teams victorious...
...fight hard, and save for possibly one or two positions, the team has been working together for two weeks at a stretch. Harvard this year is physically well qualified. The question for today is whether the team as a whole has been able to assimil- are the thorough coaching received and is ready to put on the football it should know...