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Delivering the Theodore Spencer Memorial Lecture, Macgowan said that students must be taught to feel as well as think," and that the theatre is a good way to attain this end. He stressed that "theatre in its broadest sense has the happy advantage of providing a wide cultural base...
Macgowan added that the theatrical arts emphasize a creative form of artistic intelligence de-emphasized in the normal college curriculum. He insisted that this "creative power must be set free if life in this democracy is to attain the highest degree of happiness...
...pursues her from New York to London with flowers and favors, and, above all, by masterfully playing on her sense of pity-for his pride is so constituted that he can grovel to attain his ends. It is possibly the first time in fiction that a thoroughly unprepossessing man gets a woman to bed by crying a few well-timed tears. Like many suspense stories of a more robust kind, the book does not bear much thinking about once it is put down, but while the story lasts, the reader is firmly held by the question of whether Emmet Booth...
Dean McGeorge Bundy announced last week that five authorities in the fields of anthropology and social relations attain the rank of full professor as of July first...
...statesmen of the day. The duty of the journalist is the same as that of the historian-to seek out the truth, above all things, and to present to his readers not such things as statecraft would wish them to know but the truth as near as he can attain it." While U.S. and British newspapers today have more readers than ever in history, many observers on both sides of the Atlantic share a mounting conviction that the press is more than ever entangled with political alliances, less than ever concerned with the pursuit of attainable truth...