Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is the second official statement issued by undergraduate bodies in favor of the retention of minor sports. Last week the Student Council asked that every effort be made to retain Minor Sports on a formal basis, even if schedules have to be reduced to a minimum...
Aside from its unquestionable rightness and its equally unquestionable sincerity, Norman Thomas' effort has little to recommend it. It hammers away at a problem that faces America and the rest of the world, a problem that seems now adamant, now soluble. The trouble is that to those who believe in war it will make no difference and to those who hate war it will make no difference either. Being relatively inexpensive, it should get around to almost everyone for examination at least, but the reviewer believes, and he is honestly sorry for it, that the book will-make few converts...
...third search throughout the nation, authorities found a man who graded 85% in their tests. Last week Dr. Karl Murdock Bowman of Boston was appointed manager of New York's madmen.* Born in Kansas 47 years ago, educated in California, Dr. Bowman is a leader in the effort to cure insanity by means of hormones. In the sort of institutional politics which confront him in Manhattan he has had exceptional practice. In Boston where ambitious doctors butt one another unmercifully, Dr. Bowman has managed to hold three competitive teaching jobs simultaneously-in Harvard, Boston University and Simmons College...
...their hands, specifically to put in a course in milking. "Why," demanded Mr. Taft. "should we teach them to do something which any calf can do better?" Last week he had a fling at the College Entrance Examination Board, currently tinkering feverishly with its tests in an effort to please progressive teachers. "You would think," observed the old headmaster, ''that it had St. Vitus's dance...
...Eliot's The Waste Land and echoed by a thousand imitators has no place or significance in this world. On the contrary, the poet gives an impression of eagerness and determination in facing the experiences of contemporary life, even the most brutal, and making a passionate effort to understand them and incorporate them into her verse. Consequently, although her work is often confused, Theory of Flight is a suggestive book that seems to promise a durable career for its author...