Word: effective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Richard W. B. Lewis '39 deserves the reply which he invites. Surrounded by "an arrogant confusion everywhere as to the meaning and value of attending college, . . . related as cause and effect with an analogous chaos in the world generally," Mr. Lewis has probably asked his question concerning the purpose of an intellectual institution many times before. No doubt he has met the popular pedagogical comeback, "Well, what do you think...
...House, he has studied at Baker University (Baldwin, Kans.), Harvard, the University of Berlin, Heidelberg, Oxford. To pay his way, he worked not only as a drayman but as a teacher of philosophy, a lecturer, for one summer as a Methodist minister. His itch for politics took effect one day in 1916 when he substituted for his father on the platform at a Republican rally, made a hit as a boy orator. Elected to the House by his lead-mining district in 1928, he made an unsuccessful try for the Republican Senatorial nomination in 1932, got back into Congress...
...cinema has, in fact, covered the subject of Africa so frequently and so badly that cinemaddicts might be excused for believing that the whole terrain must be at once less worthy of attention and more thoroughly photographed than any other place on earth, outside of Hollywood. One certain effect of Dark Rapture will be to shatter this conviction...
...Simpson's tests were intended to show not only how much but how good an influence discussion has. He concluded that a properly conducted "bull session'' has a good effect, for after his students had discussed works of art, their ratings of those works agreed more closely with experts' opinions. Few subjects realized their opinions had been changed by discussion. One girl told Dr. Simpson she was still of the same mind as before. Yet on her second test she unconsciously swung 17 points toward a consensus of experts...
...last week, earnings reports for August (first full month since the 25% boost took effect) made it plain that thus far the rate increase has helped the railroads as much as a rainy climate helps rheumatism. The Pennsylvania Railroad's passenger revenues fell 14% below August 1937, the New York Central's 17%, Baltimore & Ohio's 19.5%, the New York, New Haven & Hartford's 3%. All told, August was the Eastern railroads' worst month for passenger revenues this year...