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...course might be improved, he displayed an attitude which could well be more generally adopted. No one is better qualified to pass judgment on courses than those who take them, and if the response to similar requests is intelligent and constructive, professors should be able to adapt their method and presentation to the changing demands of the times...
...editors went to work on a plan to compile selections of old shots from film libraries, lead them up to spot newsreel views of the current week. Results were disappointing, largely because in many cases library clips were mere flashes of persons and events. Then the editors decided to adapt The March of Time radio technique of re-enacting such scenes as were needed. First experimental dummy reel was completed last August, showing such subjects as the birth of the Dionne quintuplets, the death of Hindenburg, U. S. midshipmen cheering the Pope. Three more dummies were made, tested on cinema...
Summarily, the advantages are two-fold. First, the candidate learns to adapt his thinking to a new medium of expression and second, he has an opportunity to discuss college problems with members of the Faculty and University officials...
...activity of the House of Commons, if I may adapt and adopt an ancient phrase, 'is the activity of the soul and the way of virtue or not without virtue, and that, too, in a full sense.' I think the decision of Lord Denman, then Lord Chief Justice, in a case many years ago, is sufficient for the present purpose. Lord Denman said...
...have not been satisfied to abbreviate and adapt definitions made originally for adults and for adults of much ability and knowledge. What has a clear and correct meaning to a well-informed adult may confuse and mislead a child. We, therefore, frame our definitions directly to meet the needs of children...