Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scorned. The tutorial system already has the college at its feet. The faculty also must bow to reality. Lectures must be made to fit the needs of a college under such a system--and they must be vital. For the college mind is a critical mind in a critical age. By giving birth to the tutorial system the University has made one more contribution to the needs of contemporary living the present duty of the University is to make its elder brothers, lecture and class, as useful and interesting as the tutorial system. If this is not done completely...
...these characteristics have their importance, and each of them is worrying in its own way the mind of the University. But the last is by far the most troublesome. For ugliness improves with age--the red sprawl of two weeks is the delightful, gurgling wonder of two months nakedness eventually loses itself in pink ribbons and embroidered flannel--but autocracy grows greater and becomes more formidable with the passing of the months. The tutorial system is doing just that. So the brotherly heart of the lecture system beats the double time of panic. And fear seeps its way into...
During the Tertiary age which is the most recent geological period before the present many parasitic, insects similar to those existing now abounded. By studying these and comparing them with existing species we can learn something of their relations and migrations from one area to another...
...Three native sons have doctors' degrees from universities, but nevertheless there is a sound culture in Charlotte. One of the faculty here at Harvard maintains that Ferrisburg has even more. I disagree. If culture is that refined sense of right living which comes with the mellowness and dignity of age, then Charlotte has culture. Verb roots do not thrive on her rock ribbed earth, but something even finer does. For the faces of the people are strong and chiseled. They workship a strong god who made their rocks and yet let them live upon them. Charlotte is a goodly place...
Professor Alfred Jeanroy, Professor of Romance Languages and Literature in the University of Paris and Exchange Professor from France to the University, will give the last of his series of 12 lectures on "Le Theatre francais aumoyen age" on Monday. The subject of this lecture will be "La sotie et la moralite...