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Ideally, tutorial can be one of the most effective teaching devices available to the University. It can give the student a chance to test his ideas on an interested and informed mind. It can give him an insight into the working of the scholarly process which he cannot readily attain through lectures and text-books. It can require him to articu-late his ideas and arrange his knowledge with a coherence which is seldom demanded by the one way techniques of papers and exams. Most of all, it can defeat the gamesman's glib use of words and facts...
...attain this goal, Perkins has ordered a brief restoration of gracious living in the fullest sense. The meal will feature wine, waitresses, table linen, and Lowell House china...
Tufts has lost both of its contests up to now, one defeat being by 20 points to the University of Massachusetts. George "Woody" Trimshaw, Jumbo coach, said that his squad has practiced only since Thanksgiving, and requires more polish before it will attain top form...
...where the farmers are again having to move out. Untimeliness is not the only reason that the movie does not produce sufficient impact. Although producer Darryl F. Zanuck thought the condition of the Okies even worse than John Steinbeck had reported, in a supposedly superior medium, he does not attain as graphic a portrayal of their plight as did the author...
...Spring of 1954 and 1956 Thresky again disappeared mysteriously only to be photographed at various local points of interest. He was returned to the 'Poon offices last June, but will probably not attain his former heights until the 'Poonsters scrape up $45 to cover the cost of resoldering him to his perch. How long he will stay up thereafter is uncertain...