Word: sharp
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...annual dinner of the Harvard Club of Paris was held last Saturday evening in a truly military atmosphere. As the representative of the French government, Jules Steeg, Minister of Public Instruction, was the principal speaker, and in addition there were present the United states Ambassador, William Graves Sharp; Dr. John H. Finley, Commissioner of Education of the State of New York; and James Hazen Hyde '98, who presided. Graduates and undergraduates of the University who are enrolled in the Lafayette Escadrille and the American Ambulance Service attended in uniform...
...scholar in Semitic 12 informs us--that when Artaxerxes, king of all the world from the Euphrates to the Tigris, went to battle he armed the front line of his phalanges with a buffer of pugnacious elephants. On each elephant was a wild-eyed son of Japhet with a sharp goad and a rebel yell. The goad tickled the elephant's hide, the rebel yell tickled his musical sensibilities. He became imbued with the spirit of conquest and charged like a young Juggernaut or a Woolworth tower on wheels against...
Resignations: William Sharp McCann, as Arthur Tracy Cabot Fellow in charge of the Laboratory of Surgical Research; Augustus Thorndike '84, Instructor in Orthopedic Surgery; Ernest Carroll Moore, Professor of Education; Albert Parker Fitch '00, as Andover Professor of Practical Theology; Robert Mearns Yerkes, as Assistant Professor of Comparative Psychology...
...will convince anyone of the truth of this statement. We went as far as to give more importance to English than to our own language, Spanish, in our schools. The Republican Party, with its belief in statehood for the island, controlled the country until 1904. However, a sharp reaction set in to counteract the political abuses of the appointees, and as an expression of national consciousness, the Unionist Party came into control as a result...
...right, and this "Major Pendennis" is not. It is little else but a string of amatory episodes arbitrarily put together without much skill. The adapter needs a link more enduring than Mr. Drew to correlate his rosary of prettily colored beads. In a former play, "Becky Sharp," adapted on much the same method, he had such a link in the radiant personality of Mrs. Fiske. She "made" the play in the sense that through the subtle comedy of her characterization the play literally held together, a coherent, self-justified whole. It is not the fault of the star...