Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small and vigorous doses, so often blinds the intelligence of the student to problems and pleasures beyond the narrowest limits of his work; in examining the surface similarities between two versions of Goethe's "Faust" he forgets that the play is a thing of beauty and a living comment on life; in studying the calculus he overlooks that mathematics is a method of expressing the truth, as capable of interpreting the science of physiology as of indicating the proper way to cut a pie. The cramped outlook is a general and common failing, equally characteristic of the student...
...House Chronicle." At present, and until the advent of further funds, it is proposed merely to publish two typewritten reports of House activities, one to be placed permanently on file in the library. This is by no means an ambitious undertaking, and will probably serve only as an interesting comment on the youth of Lowell for the inquisitive of future generations...
...breaking right for David Lawrence. When he was the undergraduate correspondent for Associated Press at Princeton, he scooped the nation with his report of the death of Grover Cleveland. Three weeks ago he was compelled to cease publishing his dry but valuable U. S. Daily (Government news without comment) when his deficit caught up with and passed his subsidy from influential friends (TIME, March 13). Throughout the land, editorials bemoaned his paper's demise. But last week the broad, serious face of the U. S. Daily again looked out from newsstands and up from the desks of business...
...William Lyon Phelps concludes the issue with an interesting review of "Ann Vickers." Space precludes much comment; one quoted sentence will suffice: ". . . as Sinclair Lewis is so constituted that he must attack what seem to him oppressors or hypocrites or respectable solemnities, this is a book with a purpose...
Somewhere in the maze of empty offices above the Coop, the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art is exhibiting the works of Harvard and Radcliffe students. The paintings sparsely covering the walls of the Society's two rooms have drawn from the critics rather favorable comment. The few drawings and etchings are of a like caliber, but the works exhibited seem by their small numbers to betoken a lack of talent in the University which is not the case. To the critical artist the exhibition is apparently satisfying, but for the student who has gone to see the works...