Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long time the comment of the President's friends has been that inflationary powers were necessary as a "permissive" thing but that the President did not intend to follow such a course. The issue would undoubtedly be crystallized in an attempt to deprive the President of these discretionary powers the moment it is apparent that he intends to exercise them...
...already have evidence of the far-reaching effect of your considerable comment, and wish to express appreciation for the protection which you gave the National Life (of Vermont) through your explanatory note...
...humanities the present spectacle is most painful. Scientific study is in a different class and much of this comment is not applicable to it. Rather, the penetration of science into humanistic studies is the danger. Whatever organization these departments may develop, they must forget their exclusive allegiance to accomplished facts, and to the field within the field within the field. It has been supposed that, but the very nature of the men teaching graduate subjects, these reforms cannot be possible, but it is not so much in persons that the academic anemia has its source, as in a system which...
Some of the Professors questioned by the CRIMSON declined to comment on the situation; several instructors, in informal conversation, stated freely that the time needed for proper accomplishment of the assigned work is much more than the stated "six hours." In defense of the apportionment of time, a Professor in the department of Chemistry says; "A student may spend eight or ten hours in a laboratory without becoming particularly fatigued. An equal period of time spent over a text book, however, is almost impossible for the ordinary individual. Also, much of the work in a laboratory, such as washing beakers...
...about the intellectual apathy of the undergraduates and about their insulation from experience. Their novelty perished with the seventeenth century. A review of John Strachey's "The Menace of Fascism" is the ablest bit of journalism in the issue, but is content to leave the book unanalyzed, and without comment...