Word: oftener
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Undergraduates often have ideas about what a college education ought to be and why it isn't, but it's seldom that they write a treatise about it to prove their point...
...read the book and I don't want to spoil it by seeing the movie." That's the reaction of a great many people who see one of their cherished novels advertised at the local cinema. Too often does established fiction submit to a most exhaustive mincing in the name of "entertainment" on its way to the screen...
Wendall Hastings '35 took a Red Cross First Aid course before going to France, which proved an invaluable asset, since often after a severe bombing the Americans were the first on the scene with no doctors within miles...
...adapted them to suit his own purposes. Toulouse-Lautrec, in his own right, was a genuine artist, one who delved deeply into the earthy, sometimes sordid aspects of life. His brush was strong, his eye was piercing, and in all of his work a sharp feeling of cynicism, often bordering on harshness, can be detected. I was surprised, though perhaps I should not have been, to find that he had produced such a brief master-piece of whimsicality as the "Femme-Couchee," one of the lithographs included in this otherwise sophisticated series...
...first International Brigades marched into the Spanish Civil War, shouting: Spain is the grave of fascism. It turned out to be the grave of most of the Internationals. They had almost no arms, often no rations. They were refugees from Germany and Italy, workingmen and intellectuals from France and Belgium, men without identification papers, passports, even names. Most of them were Communists, but there were few Russians among them. They believed they were fighting to save democracy from fascism. In their political innocence and lack of military equipment, they were determined, if necessary, to make a living barrier of their...