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...vision and a different art. If no more wise than Chekhov, he is more wordly-wise and more ironic. Much of A Month is leisure-class social comedy, in which sheer ennui acts as a stimulant and the yawn is father to the kiss. Where Chekhov's people bestir themselves too little or too late, Turgenev's seem overready; just because the landscape is flat or the drawing room tedious, they grasp at situations and embroider them, they self-centeredly turn dramatist themselves. But they are often worldly enough to be on to what they are doing...
...principle of paper-writing is certainly recognised in the lower-level General Education courses, which in their attempt to bestir sluggard minds, usually require at least four papers apiece. Instructors of departmental and upper-level General Education courses, however, often require no more than an hour exam. Hour exams do serve to test one's mental agility. And they make a good game, in which one sees how well he can furnish a blue-book from the warehouse of a vacant mind. Even if one does know the material, hour exams permit little time for serious deliberation of a question...
...courses could be distributed, and interdepartmental committees would be enabled to accomplish something beneficial, if not striking. Although no one expects the great morass of courses ever to develop any coherent form, improvements can be made if the faculty will only consider a more logical curriculum important enough to bestir itself...
After having been brought to a dead stop by defeat at Geneva, the U.S. last week began to bestir itself again in Asia. Out to seven prospective partners went copies of a new draft treaty designed to create a Southeast Asia defense coalition (SEATO). The treaty will be discussed next week at a meeting in Manila, with John Foster Dulles on hand to make the U.S. case...
...must be gratifying to the CRIMSON that even its advertisements bestir the rest of the newspaper world. The MacArthur ad hit the Boston papers with a hearty "Harvard Vets Oppose MacArthur" headline. But the ad itself cannot be held responsible for what people infer. If, as in this case. Boston newsmen don't have time to do a little investigating, if they happen to interpret paid political ads erroneously, it is no fault of Chandler, Cook, and Knight...