Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those colleges which exist under the guise of educational institutions and are really trade schools, to those hard-headed men who believe that the empirical sciences are the backbone of the age and culture a luxury only for the wealthy, Robert Maynard Hutchins issues a poignant challenge. He has written so logical and convincing an analysis of the content and purpose of education that we find it practically impossible to refute any of his principal convictions...
...age of 75 most men have come to the sunset of their lives and desire rest most of all. Political figures, at that age, write autobiographies and dwell over the past. On July 11, 1936, Senator Geo. William Norris was 75 and could look back on years of service in Washington. Instead he looked forward to another six years as senator, a term that will last until...
Read in Randall: "Making of the Modern Mind" for History 64a. Looked through a portentous new book called "Plays About the Theatre in England from 'The Rehearsal' in 1671 to the Licensing Act in 1737, or, The Self-Conscious Stage and its Burlesque and Satirical Reflections in the Age of Criticism." 33 words, counting "Self-Conscious" as one. Mr. Dane Farnsworth Smith wrote it. It is dedicated to Kitty...
Kirk Bryan, associate professor of Physiography, will speak on "The Last Stages of the Ice Age in South-Eastern New England" in the Institute of Geographical Exploration, at 9 o'clock tonight. His lecture is the first in a series of three describing various aspects of modern scientific geographical discovery. Free admission tickets may be obtained at the Institute. Bradford Washburn '33, will give the second lecture December 16, entitled "Over the Roof of the Continent...
...Hume, Garrick, Goldsmith and Swift-remain the high points of the present edition, the new book is more intimate, less stilted, abounds in picturesque details of travelers' discomforts in the islands off Scotland in 1773. The Journal begins with its superb description of the Rambler at the age of 64: "His person was large, robust, I may say approaching to the gigantic, and grown unwieldy from corpulency." It describes Johnson's arrival at Boswell's home, Boswell's delight at his dear wife's consideration for his friend, Johnson's unvaried conversational triumphs...