Word: aspect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition they have usually shown marked improvement in their scholastic attainments in college. This aspect is most noticeable in language courses, for it is obvious that eight weeks of constant association with German or French speaking young people inevitably provides a more thoroughgoing linguistic training than it is possible to impart in the classroom...
...puddle beside the oceans of red ink spread on the Government's books during the past two years, many a Washington wiseacre believed the President would profess uncertainty of Relief needs. He might, for example, ask only a billion for Relief. This would lend the budget a cheerful aspect that would last through next year's elections, after which another Congress could appropriate another billion...
...Marxian melodrama will never be recommended by the Daughters of the American Revolution. (The one Daughter in the book is a throwback, impoverished into sympathy for her Red neighbors.) Marching! Marching! obeys the law of Marxian fiction in having no hero but half-a-dozen protagonists, each symbolizing some aspect of the proletarian struggle. In spite of her ancestry and her creed, Clara Weatherwax writes first-rate, first-hand U.S. prose that will remind more than one reader of Dos Passes. Her propaganda will propagate few proselytes, but her winged words should strike home to even a carapacic conservative...
...surveys, and the tutorial work a more thorough investigation of territory already covered. Instead of being responsible for four fields, a student might choose two, and under tutorial guidance make a complete and invigorating study of those. In place of the H. G. Wells "Outline of History" aspect of the past and present the student would achieve genuine knowledge from his work in concentration, and scholarship would revert more nearly to its true meaning...
Thanks to enlightened Presidents Hill, Eliot, and Lowell, however, the music Department has survived, and with it those organizations which lend so much to the pleasure and prestige of Harvard life. Professor Spalding neglects no aspect of music here, happily complimenting the Harvard band and its great Leroy Anderson for their part. The work was not at all easy to perform -- assembling the data and information on his subject -- and Professor Spalding offers a highly interesting treatment of it. There are a good many fine illustrations...