Word: details
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Below decks is the large room containing the exhibit of mementos of the Expedition. A glass-enclosed model of Little America, which occupies the center of the room, was constructed by the Museum of Natural History in New York, and is a model faithful in every detail. There are in miniature the wireless towers, the huts, and the paths across the ice over which the loads of supplies and equipment were carried. The lighting within the glass case is so controlled as to produce an exact representation of the polar day, growing gradually in brilliance, then fading away into Antarctic...
...Only one detail, naive in its irony, contrived to lift the clouds from the Vagabond's shoulders. As he walked up the path to the Harvard Memorial Chapel he had been guided by signs pointing the way to "the new chapel." When he reached what will presumably be the entrance, his way was barred by another sign: DANGER! KEEP...
...limits there is generally some range. In certain key courses, essential to fields of concentration, no amount of detraction could lessen the enrollment. Yet a carefully reasoned criticism, given undergraduate support, may frequently receive official consideration. It is for this reason that such courses have been treated in some detail, sometimes praised, perhaps more often disparaged, but rarely reviewed without several frank comments...
...very profitably ponder at length. The implication is that the student is seeking a comprehensive picture of the world in which he lives, of the relation of living plants and animals to their surroundings. There is no implication that he desires, or can, learn and retain a mass of detail needed only by one who is to continue in the subject. In gaining a knowledge of the plant kingdom he can surely learn of phylogeny and phyllotaxy, and see evolution at work, without being bothered with quite the host of technical terms which are now fired...
...same way, during the second half year, with Assistant Professor Wyman on the platform, a more rounded conception of the animal kingdom is sacrificed for lectures going into great detail regarding such matters as the chemical composition of the blood. The rounded picture is indeed provided in the reading, but the furnishing of too much detail in lectures, admirably scholarly and illustrative of the scientific method and well fitted for advanced courses as they may be, means opportunity lost to define more clearly the larger aspects of the picture, with the net result that the student is antagonized and confused...