Word: drawings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many advantages should result from the independent establishment of the Division of Sociology. The study of people from the human point of view rather than through their institutions and cultural traditions, is placed on an equality with the other sciences. The consequent prestige should draw more teachers and a greater number of students into the field. Organizing the Division as an entity gives the study of Sociology unity due to the integration of the courses comprising it. Also the full-time professors in the new department having more time to devote to their specialty and fewer restrictions will be able...
...perhaps difficult to draw any conclusion as to the future of interhouse sports in the success of Lowell House and the failure of Dunster House in arousing enough athletic interest for competition in swimming and basketball. The current state of affairs, however, suggests that even when all seven houses are in operation next fall and when the inter-house athletic organization is more fully realized, there may arise considerable difficulty in developing the hoped for interest in house sports...
...exclusive choice of political subjects, topics which often afford more opportunity for matching statistics and specious "debating points" than for matching careful thought, fine language, and ready wit. The discussion of subjects in the fields of fine arts and history as well as in politics would tend to draw more, and perhaps abler, men into debating and to arouse general undergraduate interest...
Adolf Hitler, with his threat to stampede German public opinion madly against France, has made Paris bankers and Jewish bankers throughout the world think. A little money freely loaned may win much German friendship, may help to draw the dangerous sting of Jew-Baiting Adolf...
...series of short features in which famous stars sang arias. The experiment was not continued. Had Gallo's Pagliacci been made with singers from the Metropolitan their names might have been enough to put it over in fair-sized cities, but the cast means little as a draw nor is it overskillful. The singers act only when they feel their voices going back on them. This deficiency is startlingly revealed by closeups; there are times when the singers have the air of comics burlesquing grand opera stars. Their voices are not bad but they sing as loud as they...