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Last week's examination given to 530 students in a first-year survey course in the humanities, set an "open book" record for youth and number of examinees. A sample question: "Is Hellenistic science or medieval science nearer akin to the science of the Newtonian epoch? In what ways?" A question TiMEreaders should be able to answer without notes: "Give one example of a case where...
...nation's best-known hotel. Fifteen minutes later something went wrong. The hors d'oeuvres ceased to arrive. Famed Oscar's dishes failed to appear. Wine bottles stopped popping. The Waldorf, that pillar of bourgeois good-living, had temporarily ceased to function. With a feeling akin to that felt in Moscow, March 1917, the Waldorf's dinner guests quietly left...
TIME, never hypocritical, handled a realistic situation in no vulgar manner. Indeed, the picture was correct, tart, informative, in good taste. It had the mystery of Dore's sketches, a good deal of the expression so common to Raphael's paintings, a shading akin to that found in Titian's masterpieces, and even that artistic sense of proportion found in Michelangelo's creations...
...particular job will be to attempt to relieve economic relations between America and Denmark. ... I shall Into make relations much more intimate. No two peoples are so akin in outlook, thought and sentiment...
...proud that the authorities should so signally commend him, and trust that he received an increase in salary befitting his now dignity. Perhaps for selfish reasons, I feel, however, somewhat hurt by this action. Through friendly associations with him last year, I came to look upon him as somewhat akin to a brother. I always referred to him as the "Major," as did my comrades. He became a part of the life of our little circle. Our college generation had accepted him. Tradition already was gathering about his head. Stories of his exploits (or his share in some of ours...