Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Japan taught both Yen and Chiang to fight. They were students at the Imperial Military College, Tokyo. Both came of prosperous people. Both got their political start in the revolution of 1911. Both are good men, Yen a Chinese Vermonter, Chiang a Chinese Virginian...
...mental breakdown. It was caused by his foolish fear of being an epileptic, his overwork as a Yale undergraduate and later as an insurance clerk. Although wracked by wild illusions, his mind lucidly registered on his experiences. When he became well he had the impulse to document himself, to start a movement for the amelioration of the then unintelligently managed insane asylums. WTilliam James encouraged him. Psychiatrist Adolf Meyer invented for him the phrase "mental hygiene." Great names joined his movement for a National Committee on Mental Hygiene? William Henry Welch, William Herbert Perry Faunce, Jacob Gould Schurman, Julia Clifford...
Society gave the Pops their start but the public seized upon them, gave them their real prosperity. With Prohibition came the question of whether they could survive, but a single Dry season showed they could. The music had become the thing, not the beer or the brightened punches. Under Conductor Agide Jacchia (1917-27) the concerts flourished as never before. Conductor Casella, who followed him, tried to dignify the programs but the people rebelled. As it did a half-century ago, Spring seems the time for occasional waltzes and mazurkas...
Coach Claude Davidson will start Philip Boyer Jr. '33 in the pitching berth for the Freshmen. Boyer has pitched consistently well during the season up to date, but has lost games due to poor support...
...primarily "a demonstration". That the publicity attendant upon the whole show was "sensational" is the opinion not only of the Association but of a large number of undergraduates who were not present at the benefit dance in Brattle Hall. There is a definite feeling that the campaign from the start has been motivated not by a genuine sympathy with the discharged workers but by a downright inclination towards smug exploitation...