Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year over 18 men reported the first day and three years ago the turnout exceeded 45. The competition has not been changed in any particular from previous years, and football men are at a loss to account for the shortage of Freshmen...
Although, on account of the absence of the President, no change in the regulations can be made until late October, undergraduates would do well to consider all possible solutions to the problem in the meantime...
...Nicoll begins with a disingenuous comparison of the present-day cinema with Elizabethan drama. What appears to be an account of our cinema, "a thing of almost mushroom growth, having a valid tradition which extended over no more than a few decades," whose managers "were intent only on what the box office receipts testified to be of immediate appeal," is a criticism equally applicable to the drama in Shakespeare's day. Having but placed us in a receptive state of mind, Mr. Nicoll proceeds to give an historical summary of the amazingly swift development of the cinema from its genesis...
...differ with Mr. Nicoll's thesis that the hope for the theatre lies in its return to themes "presented in conventional forms," plots that "took no account of the terms of actuality," and language that "soared on poetic wings." Mr. Nicoll points out that the trend has been toward naturalistic plays, but that it is a trend with no future. He considers that Maxwell Anderson's "Winterset" fulfills his requirements for the stage: it "aims at building a dramatic poetry out of common expression." Yet, in the theatre, a spectator unacquainted with the text would not be aware...
...exert a powerful gravitational attraction upon it. drew out long streamers of hot gas which condensed and cooled to become the Earth and the other planets. At Blackpool, Sir James said that a colleague had recently pointed out to him that this theory failed to account for the fast rotation speeds of the big outer planets, which have short days of about ten hours. The astronomer indicated his readiness to abandon the theory in favor of a better...