Word: covered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus the instructor's instinct bidding him to "cover the ground" at all cost, and his own epigrammatic judgment, amount to disregarding his printed colleagues. A student hardly learns to know their faces or to choose among their viewpoints. The executive method of reading assignment devitalizes authoritative printed knowledge and bars the seeker from access to pre-professorial wisdom. It is a method which is fortunately yielding somewhat to the optional reading list. In time attractive lectures on sources may signify that the teacher is only a guide...
...book in the colection, which has been placed on display is a copy of "Silex Scintillans", by Henry Vaughan, Silurist, published in 1650. This work by the well known English religious poet is bound in heavy green leather with designs traced in gold. In the center of the outer cover is a silver medallion. The following is a complete list of the authors on exhibition: John Cleveland, Abraham Cowley, Thomas Stanley, Sir John Suckling, Sir John Taylor, George Wither, Frances Quarles, Henry Vaughan, Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton, John Davies John Taylor, the Water-Poet, Giles Fletcher the Younger, Sir William...
...probable cost of the investigation (cost of clerks, stenographers, transportation cost for witnesses, etc.). Then the resolution for an investigation has been voted on by the Senate. Generally it has been passed because Senators do not care to lay themselves open to the charge of having helped the Administration cover up its defects...
...Boston Herald has been able to ascertain the general reaction among Democratic senators and congressmen to the approach of the mid-term elections. Although many men of influence, Senator Walsh among them, preferred to hold their peace, a number of lesser lights revealed a divergent drift under cover of a common watchword...
...October. Meanwhile the architects, Allen & Collens of Boston and Henry C. Pelton of Manhattan, who have had ten draftsmen working for two months, will work for six more months on the details.? The building will be of gray stone, probably of Indiana limestone, over a steel skeleton. It will cover practically all of the 22,500 feet of land (225 feet on Riverside Drive, 100 feet on W. 122nd St.) Its nave, 100 feet wide, will run north and south, parallel with the Hudson River. Its main entrance will be at the south end through a bell tower facing...