Word: aspect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...careful not to make Mr. Baldwin's nose too much like a ping pong ball, or not to draw Mr. Thomas wearing a black tie with a white waistcoat. He controls with almost superhuman restraint the impulse to accentuate the Aunt Maria aspect of Mr. MacDonald's hair, abstains from sharpening Sir John Simon's head to vanishing point, and from accentuating the vulture glare of Mr. Neville Chamberlain...
...discussion of course work. About a fifth of it is taken up with outside things. The rest is used in talking over the reading which the student has done. This reading should, of course, help the student to pass his general examinations, but I do not emphasize that aspect of it either in making assignments or in discussing them. This helps, I believe, to prevent a certain grimness from penetrating our discussion...
...difficult piece of work. Admittedly, the material which comes to them from Latin A and from preparatory schools is too much bound by fealty to the dictionary to appreciate to the fullest the sweet words of Horace and Catullus. This granted, the course is, from a cultural aspect, one of the most valuable of the many language courses open to Freshmen. The second half-year's work, which anyone may take, as a half-course, takes up the important poets Horace and Catullus. Catullus is treated summarily as a tid-bit which may be more thoroughly digested by those...
...athletic facilities, and also from many others because of the increase in the charge, still it must be considered in making any final judgement that the Harvard student at the present moment gets more than his money's worth for his participation ticket, and that, viewed in the broader aspect, a fixed fee would tend to benefit the system of athletics at Harvard as a whole...
Most conservationists, well grounded in one phase or another of the problem of preserving furred, feathered and fishy creatures for some 15,000,000 U. S. sportsmen to pursue, feel overwhelmed by the immensity of the problem's multiple aspect-biological, ecological, argricutural, political, economic, legislative, administrative. Nearly everyone agreed when rotund, bright-eyed Major Littleton Waller Taswall Waller Jr. of Meadowbrook, Pa., son of the soldier who rescued Herbert Hoover & wife in the Boxer Uprising, declared, "Lack of educated man power is the only thing wrong with game conservation." Major Waller was applauded for a three-point program...