Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Your footnote in TIME, Oct. 10, does not make clear to me just how our Chief Justice pronounces that "last-word," constitutional...
...that time, perhaps unto the end, a normal U. S. citizen will enjoy this version of it more than any other he has ever seen. The piece is played in the trimmest of modern clothes and plainly marked "Talk -do not recite, intone, pant, blow." It is as clear as a cinema subtitle; clearer. The plot is concentrated in the name; a villainously bad tempered woman is bewildered, wed, cowed by a big beautiful brute. Basil Sidney, who played Hamlet in modern clothes first for Manhattan, acted the tamer ably, though he appeared a trifle over-conscious of his bigness...
...throat. From the top extends a pipe stem, intended to bs held deep in the mouth. The cylinder contains a vibrating diaphram of rubber. As air is breathed over this diaphragm a sound results; moving tongue, lips, teeth and .palate alter such sound into syllables, words, talk. Enunciation is clear, although monotone...
...disappointing in some respects. The disappointments have been far less noticeable than the successes of the movement; but the former have been and are present, however, and the sooner the relationship of the tutor to his tutee and the relationship between the student and his course requirements are made clear, the sooner will the system reach its best development...
Since both lectures and the tutorial system are to form the bases of Harvard's educational plan, the question arises as to the proportionate contribution of each. It has been made clear that the tutorial work will never completely swallow that accomplished by lectures; then, what establishes the line of demarcation? Is the lecture side to dominate and the tutorial to assist, or, will the opposite hold true? Or is it possible to have an equal division of labor...