Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although this course has received considerable notoriety as a football player's course, the serious minded student not concentrating in English will find it of considerable value. Professor Rollins, who will confine himself to the half year on prose in 1934-35, gives an immense wealth of material and detail in rather prosy style. The reading is rather long, but not prohibitively so, and by judicious selection the student can save himself a lot of plowing...
...concentration has seemed the best way to meet these demands. It is not important that a man's concentration field apply directly to what he is doing later in life; but it is important that he has studied some field in detail. Under the present system, there is also room for generality in the four courses a man may take outside his requirements...
Colonial America considered by many a dull, dry subject, is here pictured in an amusing, yet scholarly light. The lectures which could easily be boring and uninteresting contain much humor and many queer tales of "the other side" of our colonial ancestors. Although none of the essential factual detail is omitted, it is presented in a fashion which makes the hours pass rapidly and gives one more time and interest for the reading a thing which he well needs, for the assignments are not short and many of them hardly brim over with fascination...
Directly charged with guarding the President's life are Richard Jervis. chief of the White House detail, and Col. Edward W. Starling. They, and most other Secret Service operatives, were chosen be cause they do not resemble detectives, can wear morning coats and silk hats without looking like politicians in a St. Patrick's Day parade. It will be noticed that when they are photographed with the President they never look at the camera, always at the crowd, with their hands folded across their chests, one gripping the butt of a revolver inside the coat over the heart...
...last week was a straw that broke, the camel's back. If the Government is to take the side of labor, and determine the method of dues paying and organization, industry is willing: but it wants the Government to supervise the labor unions for their financial affairs and every detail of the work now being done by the local organizers. In fact, Government control of labor unions may be the answer, and this would compel adherence by all employers. Everything else is controlled by code law except labor unions themselves...