Word: content
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston system. It was a difference in play occasioned by the smaller courts on which the inhabitants of Quakertown were accustomed to play. Thus the Philadelphians developed a game that included a vast array of wall shots, while the sons of the bean and the cod were quite content to play to the front wall...
...class home in a London suburb. From her blind and henpecked father she had inherited a secret strain that lifted her beyond her shoddy environment, made her seem like a changeling. On the annual family outing to the seaside, Shirin worshipped from afar the grim islet of Storn, was content never to have a closer view. But when Venn, Storn's spoiled young heir, rowed her over one day and presented her to his grandmother, she fell in love with the place. Years later, after a tragic but successful marriage, she met Venn again. He proposed immediately...
...course changes partially in content and treatment every year and is thus kept up to date with current thought and contemporary scientific research. The lecturer's chief concerns are pointing out the fallacies in sense perception and induction and in introducing the student to his own philosophy of organism...
Each man gives five major speeches on different subjects of about ten minutes each and several shorter ones. The instructor criticizes each man's way of speaking, his "platform manner," and the content and organization of his speeches. For the longer speeches the student has to prepare a detailed outline which cables him to organize his thoughts and lends continuity to his expression. Possibly some of the material and written examinations are a little superfinous but your speaking is greatly aided...
...value. But there are few men who consciously strive for some definite formulation of their ideas on these subjects of vital importance. The vast majority of students are engaged in the accumulation of facts and rarely are they concerned with the implications of these upon their personal life. Content to amass a rich store of factual data most students see in this process only a means of either pleasantly spanning the years of their youth or of acquiring a technical background for a career in the world. Why they want to engage in one occupation rather than another, what values...