Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...authorities on the English drama from the Elizabethan period through the Restoration, is offering for the first half year English 38 and English 15, two courses dealing with the early stage. In English 38, Mr. Lawrence takes up the English theatre in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, dealing in detail with the structure, the public, and the players of the stage during this period. English 15, which is primarily for graduates, deals with studies and problems in the history of the theatre at this time...
...organize a college, enroll a student body of 450, put it on a ship and send it through the seven seas is another matter. The mind is willing but obstacles overwhelm. In 1924, New York University attempted it, bowed to "unforeseen difficulties," postponed it a year. Last week, "the detail work" caused postponement for another year. This announcement followed upon a statement, a fortnight ago, from Dean James E. Lough, author and sponsor of "Around the World College" (TIME, June 29), that the S. S. University only awaited a full passenger list (men only) to set sail...
English 2 is such an ancient and honorable institution at Harvard that too much adverse criticism would be as dangerous as it was futile. Professor Kittredge's traditional method of taking up each year a very few plays of Shakespeare line by line and in scrupulous detail may be condemned by weary student theorists as overly meticulous. During the period of the course it does seem that both the instructor and his class become so preoccupied in scrutinizing misprints and emendations in quarto and follow that they have no time for the appreciation of Shakespeare. Some months after the last...
...official circles dishonorable discharge was said to be the worst fate possible in store for the sleepers. It was recalled, however, that a marine of the White Court detail was court-martialed in June for refusing to bathe in the untepid bay near White Court, that his ablutions are now performed in the Navy Prison at Charleston, Mass...
...year man, not to mention any higher figure. The public had almost been led to believe that a great drive under General Andrews beginning Sept. 1 to blot intoxicants from off the map of the U. S. was to be offered by business men, six-figure men. In this detail, at least, the drive...