Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The lesson of the Mexican officer's remark is a valuable one. There is hardly a greater virtue than obstinacy, if obstinacy is construed as refusal to recognize apparent defeat and turn it to personal advantage. The nations that today possess the soundest traditions of orderly government are the ones...
Where the classes are as large as they are at Harvard, and where no campaigning is done because there are no issues to be settled by the elections, many of the voters are entirely ignorant of the character of the candidates. If any of their personal friends are on the...
This unbecoming state of indifference will continue unless the functions of the officers are altered in some way so that those elected will have a chance to leave an impression of their character on the college. Then most of the students would vote because they would be conscious of a...
Certain curb brokers have recently been offering to students stocks of a highly speculative character, which, judged by the flamboyant literature that has been liberally distributed, would appear singularly attractive. Investigation of those interested in the promotion of these ventures does not disclose anything to inspire confidence. Absolutely no proof...
Mr. Hampden plays the part of Shylock with more than usual passion; he leads the audience to feel the hatred, the fawning servility, and the cruel pride of the Jew. In the scene in which Shylock returns to find his daughter fied, and his money taken, Mr. Hampden overdoes the...