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...need or desire for tutoring. It was rather in such courses where a tremendous reading list was supplemented not with exposition or enlightenment on the subject matter, but with a series of the disorganized personal ideas of the individual lecturer that the average student found himself hopelessly adrift on a sea of pedantic, inchoate, vague impressions. And it is this very type of lecturer who at the end of the year thrusts before his students an examination requiring careful and categorical organization. But how can a student categorize if he has never been taught to do so? The exceptional...
...House of Lords was informed by Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax that, after Lord Runciman was told what is expected of him, he exclaimed: "I quite understand. You are setting me adrift in a small boat in mid-Atlantic...
Prague Tricked? Adrift in the small boat with Lord Runciman will be a delegation of top-rank British Foreign Office experts and officials serving as advisers to this one-man power. Much as other states make unofficial war, Britain had launched an unofficial drive for peace...
...Lewis, as a potential man of destiny, thinks is a matter of great concern to his friends and enemies. In the course of a career filled with action rather than ideas, he has rarely decided on tomorrow's problems today. But John L. Lewis, having cut himself adrift from old-line organized labor and far offshore from the President on whose election he spent half a million, now revolves in the centre of a swirl of social forces that cannot go on swirling indefinitely. If he wants to dominate these forces, he must soon decide not only for what...
...Francisco. Since the International Convention of Expositions awarded to New York the honor of holding the World's Fair of 1939, San Francisco's rival notions have been somewhat adrift. San Franciscans point out that Congress designated their Fair, which will begin in February 1939, two months before New York's, as "America's official World's Fair of the West in 1939." Its actual title, however, is "Golden Gate International Exposition" with the major subtitle "Pageant of the Pacific...