Word: ended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with exposition or enlightenment on the subject matter, but with a series of the disorganized personal ideas of the individual lecturer that the average student found himself hopelessly adrift on a sea of pedantic, inchoate, vague impressions. And it is this very type of lecturer who at the end of the year thrusts before his students an examination requiring careful and categorical organization. But how can a student categorize if he has never been taught to do so? The exceptional one can; the average one is forced, in many cases against his will, to seek assistance elsewhere...
...prints from the Harvard entries in the annual Story Magazine contest. Of these I liked Mr. Wenzel's "Journey to Shreveport" best. It is a more brutal and masculine rendering of the situation in Josephine Johnson's "Nigger Honeymoon," with the shock of full awareness reserved until the end. Although Mr. Wenzel makes good use of the excitement of his material, his story derives its value from his ability to observe, and from a sense of country passed through and the things people say and the disturbing fact that it is also completely American to be like Charlie...
...prize-winner, "The End of It," by Cavish Lewis, is talented and cleanly written, but runs a little thin toward the end. I found myself not caring very much whether the wanderer Morris with the deep-down eyes, who stood for integrity and adventure to the grocer's daughter, did or did not take advantage of her admiration to seduce her in his hall bed-room...
After Bob Fulton was passed, Harvard successfully worked a double steal, Tully sprinting home from third, as Fulton moved up to second. Curtiss flied out to end the inning...
...mile and a quarter mark, Bill Rowe proved his ability to raise the stroke by raising the beat to a good thirty-eight. The strong fast sprint roughened the crew's form a bit, but not enough to hurt the spacing too noticeably. The sprint was held until the end of the race and as the crew crossed the finish, the sweeps were cutting out a sharp thirty-nine...