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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...questions I should like to ask are these. Is it the opinion of the CRIMSON editors that undergraduates would like or would profit by a non-credit course or half course? Is this a favorable educational situation for teaching or learning the difficult business of educated writing, especially when it is fair to presume that those required to take a non-credit course would be the least competent students? Again, in what ways do the editors of the CRIMSON suppose that "a greatly expanded English C" would differ from the general aims and methods of English...
Training for Thinkers. For his students, it was not always a pleasant experience. Morris Cohen seldom answered questions; he preferred to ask them. Like a modern Socrates ("though ... I lacked, except on rare occasions of good health, the courtesy of Socrates"), he wanted to whisk away his students' prejudices. Unlike Socrates, he felt that if their convictions vanished too, there was little he could do about it. He supplied no new doctrines to take the place of the ones he destroyed, gave his students no Cohen-made faith. His job as he saw it was to train "thinkers rather...
High Hat. When Fred Levy, a brash young securities salesman, took over Blum's in 1934 (he had married a granddaughter of the late Simon Blum, the founder), the company was $26,000 in debt, and facing bankruptcy. The first thing Levy did was phone his customers and ask: "What's wrong with Blum's?" They told him Blum's had been turning out the same old candy since Simon Blum set up shop in 1892, and they were tired...
...will move into a new, block-long, $1,360,000 store and factory cut up into small, friendly little salesrooms. Levy doesn't want to lose that corner-store atmosphere. "We want to keep it the kind of place," he says, "where nobody will be afraid to ask for jellybeans...
This morning, Nancy broke the spell. There was a vice presidency open at Charley's bank and everyone knew it lay between Charley and Roger Blakesley. The strain of waiting for President Anthony Burton to make up his mind had made Nancy taut. "Why don't you ask Burton what the score is?" she asked. "Aren't you tired of waiting...