Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meeting last night of the Phi Beta Kappa Chapter in the Dunster Common Room, eight Junior members were elected. Among those named to the chapter are two Conant scholars. Five of the number major in the Humanities and three in the Sciences...
...trite enumeration of other physical assets would doubtless be boring, since all men know that all Houses are adequately equipped. In later articles in this series, the reader may assume that when such things as superior squash courts, libraries, ping pong tables, common rooms, and the like are mentioned, such matters are taken for granted at Dunster...
...Very gratifying", commented Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government, on hearing the report. "This will enhance the prestige of the Legislature." Holcombe is an enthusiastic member of the common front of university professors, led by President Conant, which presented the cause of the opposition at the public hearing two weeks...
Stressing the fact that learning is necessary to the leaders of opinion today, the President defined this learning as knowledge of the past. "Unless historical perspective can be developed, which is the common patrimony of all the people," he said, "a vital growing civilization cannot be achieved. . . . Only by merging the cultural streams of many groups and concentrating our attention on our common past, brief as it has been, can the ground work be laid for a significant civilization. To me this is the great cultural and intellectual task of the coming generation...
...River, Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind have all been of approximately 1,000-page length. Last week Meyer Levin's The Old Bunch (964 pages) gave wrist-weary readers another hefty handful. Aside from actual weight, however, The Old Bunch has less in common with its swollen sisters than with such half-starved gutter rats as James Farrell's Studs Lonigan. Realism of the cheapest dye, Author Levin's tale of Jews in Chicago is not so much a chronicle as chronic narrative. Gentile readers (goyische Lezer to Author Levin) may find themselves oppressed...