Word: doned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...waste anyway and is not deserving of serious attention. The advisers, consequently, explain as briefly as possible the methods of distribution and concentration, fill up the freshman's cards with all the elementary courses it will hold, and dismiss the young man with the conviction of a job well done. I recall that the gentleman to whom I was intrusted ushered me into his room in an impressively efficient manner, and abruptly asked me what I was interested in. Having a vague notion that I liked Shaw and Galsworthy and Shakespeare, I murmured 'English.' 'Excellent,' my advisor snapped, 'you must...
...would appear, perhaps, an unnecessary expenditure of time and effort for the adviser to go so thoroughly into a matter which more than half of his students will never care about anyway. But after all, it is the very least that can be done, to attempt to arouse intellectual interest and to stimulate it along channels amenable to its particular characteristics. The ninety-and nine failures on the part of the adviser will measure up small in comparison with the one success the one student who comes there interested in nothing at all, and quite able and willing, his visions...
...field of applied science. While we cannot hope to produce aeronautical engineers or even pilots, undergraduates as well as graduates would receive knowledge of the fundamental operations of that most important operative factor in man's environment, the weather. We walk on the earth, and have done so in all past ages; but we also walk and live in the air, and are now beginning to utilize our power to spring from earth and traverse the air. The importance of knowing more about that medium is apparent. "The air's the thing and before long men who have...
...Album is being printed by the Andover Press, which has brought out many albums in the past and which recently achieved a signal typographical success with the 1931 Freshman Red Book. Engravings for the Album were done by the Wright Engraving Company, and the individual and group photographs were taken by Notman's Studio. The Senior Album Committee, in charge of the publication of the book, is composed of T. H. Eliot '28, C. R. Pforzheimer '28. A. M. Blackburn '28, R. T. Dunn '28, and H. W. Bragdon...
Gilbert and Sullivan enthusiasts abound, and to them it is needless to address any remarks. It is to the uninitiated that a word may be wise. In this production one gets a glimpse of what can be done with a piece if it is intelligently produced. Mr. Ames has spared on trouble or cost with the cast and the staging. The favorites of last year are back, and again the same spirit of general good humore runs through the show. You feel all the time that the cast is having as good a time as you are--perhaps--better, although...