Word: evens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...needs more power in the projector. The film is nothing more than a hodge-podge of supposedly funny scenes with a minimum of continuity. In the opening scene there appears with Myrna Loy a dead ringer for Taylor, but he soon passes out of the picture and never returns, even to explain his striking resemblance to the star. All in all, one cannot help concluding that the screwball tendency in comedy so easily overdone, has been carried a number of degrees...
Never before has the University expressed official and definitive opposition to commercialized tutoring. Never before has it even faced the evil openly. Its attitude has been one of scolding disapproval, and this inarticulate and inconsistent. Now, in blanket terms which leave no outs, it has condemned the cram parlors of the Square. "Commercial tutoring . . . rests upon a false theory of education and certain practices exert a harmful influence." Harvard has leveled moral sanctions against the use of tutoring schools...
...outlined, and these will prove hugely difficult. For one, the University proposes rapidly to extend on a large scale its existing facilities for supervision and guidance. This is hardly enough. This would amount to the institution of tutoring merely to compete with that in the Square; and not even on equal terms, since its scope would be more limited...
...planetarium and its faculty is the firmament cast on the dome, then Harvard has, during the last week, greatly brightened her projector. For to Harvard comes Robert Frost, owner of a scintillating name in American poetry. Also Go Strawinsky, master of savage rhythms and colorful orchestrations, conceded by even his intellectual critics as one of the three most popular living composers. And finally I. A. Richards, propounder of impressive literary theories and leading searcher after values in this drifting generation. The total is a quite amazing addition to the list of big names sported by Harvard's catalogs...
This, of course, is mere generalization. In many cases, big names, outside of their publicity value, provide a net profit on the investment. Even if such men are not available to students, they are extremely valuable for the new ideas which they scatter among their colleagues. Here in particular, a man like Richards is capable of injecting a gush of vitality into Harvard's ailing English department. In the final analysis, it is simply a question of whether the giants will continue to progress and to create, or whether they will stolidly rest on past achievement. An in this case...