Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Barron '14, former captain of the University track team and at present a member of the Graduate Advisory Committee, will comment on other requisites of success. Coach Bingham, the final speaker, will outline plans for daily practice and the season as a whole. He will also explain in detail the various ways in which it is hoped the season may appeal to those men who a fail to compete in the regular meets. Thus there will be an Interdormitory meet for Freshmen, a spring handicap met for all track aspirants as well as competitions, in individual events such as Coach...
Some of the reasons in favor of such a ruling have already been pointed out. April hours interfere for at least a week with a student's general plan of work. They force his attention upon details which is of no more than temporary benefit to him. When a student has reached his fourth year in college, last minute training in the acquisition of minute is not a very great necessity: If he has not already acquired ability to do this, it is dubious whether or not he ever will. The important thing is that he have time to organize...
...first speaker for the negative, N. E. Himes '23, explained in detail the nature of the present policy of the United States, which is based, on the fact that it is impossible to have dealings with such a government as Russia's. It should not be abandoned unless we are sure that some benefit and not disastrous consequences will result...
...then explained how the idea of the trip came to him in June, 1920, and described in some detail how he obtained official and financial backing in France and America...
Fitzgerald seems to have taken this advice seriously. For all its divergences and extraneous detail one can detect in this "The Beautiful and Damned" what looks suspiciously like a purpose. The author would probably not like to be accused of "teaching a lesson" but, whether intentionally or not he has so written his story that to many of his readers it will carry a very definite moral. Indeed "The Beautiful and Damned", if condensed a little, would make a very effective tract for a prohibition organization...