Word: content
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...content with this list of distinguishing characteristics, the gentleman must needs become a philosopher, and will drape himself in a chair and discourse by the hour, and entertainingly, too, on anything from the late Mr. Napoleon to the publicity drives of the local humorous publication. Enhanced by rhetorical jerks and gestures, these impromptu orations are nothing if not picturesque, and show evidence of deep and clear thought...
...course consists of two lectures per week, a 20-minute quiz followed by a question-all in the section meeting on Friday, and "three hours" of laboratory work. The lectures are interesting from the point of view of their content, but for little else. The lecturer is dull, albeit rather easily followed when it comes to taking notes. The table experiments, however, usually make up for this, except when some assistant has prepared them incorrectly and they fail to respond according to Hoyle. The quizzes themselves, coming always as regularly as Fate, are taken entirely from the two lectures...
Each man gives five major speeches and several shorter ones. Basing their judgment on these speeches, the instructors criticize each man's way of speaking, his "platform manner", and the content and organization of his speech. Many a student learns for the first time that he talks too fast or that when on the rostrum he contorts his body to such a degree that his audience becomes quite dizzy in trying to follow both his actions and his speech...
...that Weld Boat House should be kept under lock and key. There are many whose only opportunity to seek the upstream zephyrs comes upon the Sabbath. Others who find themselves free to go a'rowing are turned away, and instead of gliding upon the surface of the river, must content themselves with running around it. The Charles, when it might be covered with graceful cedar craft, maintains an austere and puritanical state of isolation...
...course consists of two lectures per week, a 20-minute quiz followed by a question-all in the section meeting on Friday, and "three hours" of laboratory work. The lectures are interesting from the point of view of their content, but for little else. The lecturer is dull, albeit rather easily followed when it comes to taking notes. The table experiments, however, usually make up for this, except when some assistant has prepared them incorrectly and they fail to respond according to Hoyle. The quizzes themselves, coming always as regularly as Fate, are taken entirely from the two lectures...