Word: elements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most respectable memoirs are dull: this one is no exception. Abundant with annotation and anecdote, Mrs. Hardy's work is a boon to Hardy scholars, a bore to lay readers. Only relieving element in the volume is the biographer's charitable lack of sentimentality...
...article of Dr. Snedden appearing in today's CRIMSON on the question of college entrance brings out a new element of this problem in advocating that the secondary school should confine its efforts to providing an education that does not need to be supplemented by four years at college. According to this belief, it is not for the preparatory school to attempt to meet the requirements of the college, but, to the contrary, it is the duty of the college to fashion its methods after the dictates of the secondary school...
...does he go about it? He exposes Kcv + Street Noises (an element as different from Kcv as H 2 O is from H 2 ), to Public Intent On Business (which is as different from ME as carbon dioxide is from pure oxygen...
...character] is a cockney character, self-confident, contemptuous and anti-cultural; it is very knowing and knows very little." But no yearner after yore is Critic Notch; he thinks the present age "most fascinating in human history;" despising and fearing Mob ascendancy, he wants "an emphasis on the nonutilitarian element in education." believes the basis of education should be "the self-sufficiency and self-reliance of the individual soul...
...comedy or the re-hashing of box-office successes, the Dramatic Club escapes the stigma of "amateur theatrical" a term which so effectively damps with faint praise many similar groups throughout the country. And with the experimental production of plays which have been brushed aside by the big business element of the modern Theatre, the Dramatic Club can, as it has in the past, render invaluable service to the cause of American Drama. But "policy for policy's sake" is a motto which has never been in keeping with high standards...