Word: doned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...watching some of the best horse-play this side of Broadway, a Sophic Tucker version of a Greek poem, an angel on roller-skates, a Heracles in striped pyjamas, and above all, Harvard as the Cloudcuckootown! Backing up the cast was an original musical score and masks, costumes, backdrops, done with skill and rare humor. Congratulations should also go to a gentleman named Aristophanes who constructed such an up-to-date plot. Histories say that the script clicked some 2500 years ago. It clicks today...
...information--which is necessarily superficial, which they do not understand, which they have not assimilated. The most important part of study, organization of the material, is completely absent. Thus the essence of education-mastery in the methodology of thought--is taken out. Students do not think; their thinking is done for them...
Surmounting this impressive barrier is undoubtedly what has given Templeton much of his musical sense of humor. Listen to the album of records which Gramaphone Shop of New York has done (Brigg's and McKenna's have them) and not only is there some excellent piano, but some of the wildest satire you've ever heard. The man deserves great credit, not only for having overcome a handicap, but for being an accomplished piano player (his latest trick being to play concertos after having heard them once), and for having carried on with a musical tongue in the check where...
...nature of the profession. Certain practices associated with the loss reputable tutoring schools are definitely malodorous. These include writing papers. These practices should be stamped out, but there are older heads who have observed many generations of college life and know that there is much good that can be done by tutors who consider their work a profession, with the other of a profession...
...British philosopher stated that there are there courses open to America today. She can state her neutrality, and stay out of the next war; or state her neutrality and enter the war--although this is unlikely now. "However," he said, "more good will be done by making it appear that she actually will come...