Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Guide, Freshman Dean Leighton writes: "The merit of these statements is that they are not 'official' and that they are written by men who have taken, not given, the various courses. They give 'the dope.' It has been the practice of the CRIMSON to publish a similar comment on courses in the early numbers at the beginning of each college year since 1925; this is the initial year of any pamphlet...
...Guide, Freshman Dean Leighton writes: "The merit of these statements is that they are not 'official' and that they are written by men who have taken, not given, the various courses. They give 'the dope.' It has been the practice of the CRIMSON to publish a similar comment on courses in the early numbers at the beginning of each college year since 1925; this is the initial year of any pamphlet...
...break," roared the General into the telephone. "No further comment...
...principle of the Guide itself needs little justification at this late date. When first published in the regular columns of the CRIMSON in 1925, it caused widespread favorable comment, both in the daily press and in publications of other colleges. Prior to its appearance, the student's sources of information concerning his prospective courses were limited and haphazard. There was the bloodless and formal description in the catalogue which described the course but which in the nature of things could tell nothing of its practical soundness, of its enjoyability, or of the comparative capability of the instructor. And there...
Asked last week to comment on the controversy as to whether Southerners ever use ''you-all" in the singular,* Professor Greet said that the expression is usually collective, but sometimes resembles the French vous, as when a Negro servitor might say to a single person, with no sense of intimacy: "Kin ah call a cab fo' y'awl?" Southern-born, Professor Greet speaks with a faint accent, by no means resembles an "elocution" teacher, says: "We want to make Americans speak like Americans, not like a cross between Walter Hampden and an Englishman...