Word: centering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While more attention is daily being paid to the student's physical comfort, less fruitful concern seems to center on his intellectual stimulation. A tutorial system is provided but the best tutors receive little recognition for their proficiency in this work; additional neophytes are added as section men for the ever growing social science courses, but the men on whom the real teaching burden rests are fired; this year ten assistant professors have been released. Harvard's administrators have provided a tentative and incomplete blueprint for a new educational structure but have failed to conserve the vital energies which alone...
...them on the right track if you will correct it before it grows any more, and after the boost you give the picture there is certain to be a lot of talk about it. There surely are many Spanish-speaking natives of these southern countries right there at Rockefeller Center who would gladly inform you it is not pronounced "Wha-race," but "Whar-s"-first syllable strongly aspirated, followed by only the faintest sound of s through front teeth...
Governor Dickinson is a Republican and a Methodist. Each Sunday at the Center Eaton Methodist Church near his home town, Charlotte, he still teaches a Bible Class. Dry and anti-tobacconist, he was elected Michigan's Lieutenant Governor seven times, presided over the State Senate in decent obscurity. Then last March conservative Republican Governor Frank Fitzgerald died and Luren Dickinson succeeded him. In the past three months he has given Michigan its godliest and goofiest government...
...frame the Stahlmen bunched two hits singles by Bob Fulton and Fred Keyes down the first base line, and a brace of walks to Tom Healey and Art Johns. The last one forced Fulton home with a run. In the eighth Lupe Lupien poled a long drive out to center field and went all the way around the bases when the Jumbo outer gardeners misjudged the drive slightly. That poke wrote a finis to Harvard scoring for the afternoon...
...visitors manufactured their three runs in the first on two hits, a walk, and an error. Lee got to first safely on Art Johns' boot, Chircs strolled, and both men advanced on an infield out. Budrunas singled to center, driving in two tallies, and followed them around on Hannabury's double...