Word: medium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This year an attempt will be made to canvass the Law School as well as the College, probably through the usual medium of collectors...
...History" has furnished us with the first true American Outline of History." Undoubtedly, the author has harkened to the eloquent appeal of James Harvey Robinson to "humanize" and "de-academize" knowledge for the benefit of the masses. Both of these objects have been accomplished largely through the medium of a careful selection of authenticated pictures and cartoons. The book is an example of the modern movement to teach general history by means of the visual appeal. It is an exceptionally valuable "pictorial review" of the story of our people. The illustrations occupy more than half the space and at first...
Said Lawrence Oilman, famed critic: "Mr. Wagner is 55 years old-of medium height, plump, white-haired, clean-shaven. In profile he looks like a blend of George Washington, Chauncey M. Depew and the composer of Tristan. His general aspect is that of a lymphatic vestryman. He is almost uncannily undemonstrative. . . . He conducts with astonishing casualness. . . . His listlessness makes the conductional apathy of Richard Strauss seem epileptic by comparison...
...club will not at first adopt a definite platform, but will form a medium around which opinions can crystallize, and form a basis for the adoption later of a position that shall be truly representative of Harvard Democratic thought. One object of the club will be to get men prominent in the Democratic party to speak at the University. Next week a drive for membership will be instituted...
Through his interpreter, Mr. Leitner further discussed his gift. Thought transference through a light touch of the hand, which is called Leitnerism, he distinguished from the well-known Cumberlandism which operates through full contact with locked arms, thus enabling the medium to read the tremor of the muscles. Leitnerism, in addition, uses the free hand to seek the object, whereas, in the case of Cumberlandism, the object is sought with the hand on which rests the subject's hand...