Word: directs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...social revolution is manifest in the breaking down of the Caste system," pointed out the Indian writer, "and that overturning of the caste-system is the direct consequence of the industrial and economic revolution. At the top of the old caste system stood the Brahmins, followed by the princes, and then the various leyels of workers. But today with the stress upon the economic side of life, it is the millionaire and all rich men who form the highest caste, while below this group, trail the poor...
...dogmatism of Johnson. What is desirable--and what is growing more desirable with the increase of book production and the enlargement of public taste--are critics, whether from the universities or the newspapers, whose advice can be accepted with some trust and whose enthusiasms are restrained by a direct application of the eternal verities. The logical breeding place for such men would appear to be the universities, but the need has yet to be filled...
...that the pool shown in the right wing of the accompanying photograph, will be built as a separate unit before the remainder of the structure. In this ell the swimming pool, the demensions of which will probably be 75 by 60 feet, will be on the second floor, with direct sunlight through the sky light...
...Count explained that when he said that women ruled in America he did not mean that their direct dominance was apparent on the surface. Their dominance, he explained, was a matter of indirection. For America more than in any European country today, they have succeeded in tempering and charging man's minds and the normal masculine outlook on the world. He believed that the great need of America is "the emancipation of men, rather than the emancipation of women...
Charles Townsend Copeland has been one of those rare scholars who have truly appraised the personal relation between teacher and pupil. He relied more on direct contact than on lectures, books and formulas, but his courses nevertheless have been popular, and the fame of his readings has traveled far beyond collegiate circles. But it has been by summoning the members of his composition course "English 23," to his rooms in Hollis to read aloud their themes to him, and by gathering others together on winter evenings to exchange ideas about everything this side of the moon, that his influence...