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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every bonus bill has to be concocted by a mathematical expert who can make it look cheap to taxpayers, liberal to veterans, possible to the Treasury. Senator Harrison did not try to concoct anything so difficult out of his own head. He went to the Veterans' Administration, got its best wizard with figures to do the job. Assistant Administrator Harold Walker Breining is a fat, fortyish actuary who, since 1917, when he went overseas in field service for the Division of War Risk Insurance, has been making statistical tables dance jigs for the Government. Mr. Breining found...
...indeed difficult to suggest any infallible panacea. Some professors have adopted a policy of allowing questions during the lectures or at some stipulated periods. In other courses the nature of the subject permits cooperative treatment analagous to the case method. Whatever the system adopted, it is essential that professors should provide some means whereby the student can secure satisfactory answers to questions arising over the material of the course...
Most other methods adopted so far have been more or less disappointing. It is becoming increasingly clear how difficult it is to find a field of common action upon which tutor and student can meet and develop that atmosphere of sociability so admittedly desirable in the House Plan. Teas given by the various Masters in their Lodgings have been of advantage only to that regrettably small number of students attending them. Informal buffet suppers for seniors during their examinations, as tried by one Master, come too late in the college career to furnish the missing link...
...Forest, critics could only record that Playwright van Druten had spoken, but not very succinctly, in a worthy cause. His flashbacks to Wartime England seem singularly unexciting, while his contemporary scenes make peace appear as dismal as war. Spectators were most disappointed by the voice-from-beyond scene, a difficult illusion which failed to get across the footlights, through no fault of Miss Cornell and her excellent supporting cast. Though he played his part as the stricken oracle with ingratiating charm, Burgess Meredith could not help tripping over Mr. van Druten's script...
Like Auden and Spender, Mr. Day Lewis has a special poetic vocabulary which makes his symbolism difficult for the uninitiated. One is grateful, therefore, for the explanations of it given in the manifesto. His own poetry is the least obscure of the lot. Not even "From Feathers to Iron" offers any real difficulty, and the satire of "The Magnetic Mountain" is very forthright; one may instance the passage beginning "Let us now praise famous...