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...line with the contemporary educational philosophy which has been espoused by the new administration the department of English had laid much emphasis on the importance of scholastic research to the chagrin of those students desirous of pursuing the art of writing and the mechanics of composition. By limiting the number of composition courses a candidate for honors may count towards his degree to one, the department seriously handicaps the student who is vitally interested in perfecting a good style and who desires to do original work along these lines...
...these neophytes are desirous of avoiding the hasty consideration of special fields of interest with the resultant disappointment and chagrin that so often follows last minute decisions, they will begin now to consider where their particular interest lies before urged to do so by University Hall bureaucrats. Harassed by distribution and language requirements the average Freshman gives little thought to concentration until these are successfully met. In many instances, which the Freshman may observe among unenthusiastic upperclassmen, fields of concentration are selected without much previous analysis of a student's own aptitudes or a knowledge of that with which...
...next. Then he polished off the No. 1 Davis Cup singles player, towheaded Sidney Wood, 6-3, 6-2, 6-3. By that time, the other two members of the Davis Cup team were already out of the tournament. Allison's only available means of increasing the chagrin of the Davis Cup committee was to win the title by beating Frederick John Perry of England (TIME, Sept. 3) in the final...
Harriss came from Central High School, Omaha; will graduate summa cum laude in history; has been awarded the Washburn Prize, Greenleaf Scholarship, Carles Wyman Scholarship, Detur Award, and the Thomas Jefferson Coolidge Debating Medal. He was chagrin of Leverett House Committee...
Like most League attaches, Dr. Rajchman is an ardent liberal, instinctively opposed to Japanese imperialism. To Japan's chagrin he is also an able administrator. In a short time he had coordinated reconstruction work in seven provinces, persuaded the Nationalist Government to spend $15,000,000mex.-six times as much as in 1933-for reconstruction. Then he returned to Geneva with a strongly worded report demanding more money and moral support for China if that country is not to collapse before Japan...