Word: elementalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disadvantage of the small college is obvious. The dramatic element in education does not play a great part in its activities. ... In the last analysis . . . it is through them that each State and section must maintain ample cultural opportunities for the youth within reasonable distance from their homes and in circumstances fitted to the needs of each community and its people...
...Hoffman, burly right guard who is in his element on the front line of attack. An indefatigable player, this 194, pound strong-man will surely cause a good deal of trouble to the Harvard line-men who oppose...
...anyone familiar with that system however, the element of complete autonomy for the smaller unit appears essential. If the Harvard and Yale houses are to be merely administrative units, not completely autonomous units, the results, though they may be important, will certainly not be Oxonian, since the very essence of Oxford is the autonomy of the college; and that autonomy is guarded with a jealous love which the outsider finds it hard to understand or to value at its true worth...
...Russia is brooding over Asia, wherein Japan is the only stabilizing element. If America's moral support is refused to Japan in the present crisis the world may see Asia go Red. Give Japan a free hand to fight chaos and disorder...
...form and pattern but no color. Equally lifeless is A Church Mouse, another load of Fodor which relates the story of a drab little girl who has cunning enough to persuade a rich man to let her replace his mistress-secretary, finally to make her his wife. The element which made I Love an Actress bearable is also present in A Church Mouse: breathless little Ruth Gordon, cast in the heroine's role...