Word: directe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grange, Ky., listening to the stories which his father, a Colonel, would read aloud by the light of a lone, economical candle. Later be became reporter, playwright, saw a movie in a nickel theatre. His first connection with the cinema was that of an actor; he used later to direct Mary Pickford or Mack Sennett, making a picture a day. According to tradition, it was D. W. Griffith who suggested that cinemas be lengthened to two reels, who invented the closeup, who enlarged the scope of the camera beyond that of the human eye. His The Birth of a Nation...
Tutor Powerless Except to Direct...
...teaching of English in Harvard College. Many beside myself feel this to be true, and some, more immediately concerned, are struggling to improve the situation; but because I have recently been through the awful mill of English concentration, and, because through business activity since graduation I have come in direct contact with English instruction in other colleges, I feel justified in writing my criticisms...
...view of this situation, the tutor is quite powerless to do anything but direct his student to such reading as will cover the writers left unstudied in his regular courses and coach him on the best ways of handling examination questions. Even if the tutor has a strong personal love for literature as one of the fine arts, he has not time to share his enthusiasm with those who come to him for direction, no time to arouse in them a taste for beauty, or to show that the cultivation of critical standards may help each one to find...
...that only the inferior Freshmen are required to take English A, the instructor's task in the course has become even less attractive than formerly, and it is more essential that the section men should not be confined to the teaching of it alone. They should be allowed to direct advanced literature courses of their own in order to keep them fresh and to give them the hope of advancement. To make this possible, and to prevent interference with courses that have long been given by older members of the Department, it would do no harm to institute...