Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least serious condition, in our school and college football, is that of 'proselyting' on the part of some college graduates and football coaches in college who approach schoolboys with the intention of diverting them to their particular college, and for no other purpose than to strengthen the football team in that college, and these 'proselyters' offer inducements by way of 'athletic scholarships,' jobs as waiters, etc., and sometimes by direct payments in cash. The writer, when presiding over a boarding school, was well aware that the best football players in his school were constantly being approached by college alumni...
...approach to literature consists chiefly in a theory that all literature is based on certain literary values, such as the values of religion, of romantie love, of the family, and of the home," R. M. Lovett '92, professor of English at the University if Chicago said in an interview recently. Professor Lovett was a guest of the Harvard Liberal Club a few days ago at which time he spoke on the Literature of Revolt...
...college now. Modern politics are infinitely complex and the ordinary intelligent citizen has few ways to educate himself to an understanding of the issues which are at the basis, or should be, of current political life. If the inquiry could succeed only in pointing out the direction of approach to these issues giving the student a knowledge of source material and a technique in searching it our, it will have justified its organization...
Boston, it becomes increasingly evident, likes to insure in its theatre censors a fresh and unprejudiced approach to the task of keeping pure the morals of playgoers in the Athens of America. The retiring stage censor of the Hub, John M. Casey, received his training for the post as trap drummer in a vaudeville orchestra, while his newly-appointed successor, twenty-eight-year old Stanton M. White, has approached the dramatic muse through a career as "art photographer" and county pay-master. Still further assurance of his fitness for the post of thespian Cato in Boston is found...
...pointed out, literature courses and the methods by which they operate are only of some fifty years standing in Harvard. These methods have been and still are, in the main, scientific, emphasizing the historical changes which condition art, or its sociological and economic causes. But the approach which gives literature its chief significance and uncovers its closest bonds with the serious and comic business of living is the personal, informal, circumspect way of feeling out of a poem its final emotional substance and seeing how it jibes with ones' own experience. It may be said with truth that literature...