Word: existences
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tutors. Educated in American colleges and universities before the advent of the English idea of tutorial instruction was translated into the American conception of what such a system must be, these men have for the most part, no sense of that subtle relation between tutor and student which must exist, if the system is to be at all effective Furthermore, they are Americans. And to an American, even in college teaching, there must be progress toward position, prestige, or life becomes futile Unlike the Englishman who sees his lifework in being a tutor, these young hopefuls see in a tutorship...
Speaking as a graduate student in Harvard, it seems most inappropriate that any group of men in a university of this size and importance should attempt to clog in the least degree the machinery of good-will existing among the graduates of so many other schools of learning. It is true unfortunately that the opportunities for social intercourse between graduate students are much restricted by the unusually heavy work assigned them, but this fact is in itself a reason for making the few opportunities that exist as pleasant as possible. Princeton sends a large number...
...finest position in mathematical research. Throughout the nation Harvard, Yale and Princeton clubs combine--not to proselytize in their localities but to spread the ideal of self-education. Is it logical that these groups would permit ungentlemanly playing, derogation of scholastic standards, patronizing and supercilious behavior Could such cooperation exist if the feeling of small minorities represented the true spirit of the universities...
Last week, Dr. Stokowski issued a statement: ... "I now see clearly that until we can have the necessary equipment of an especially constructed stage, no progress can be made. . . . The necessary stage arrangements for sinking the orchestra to a lower level. . . and invisible, do not exist in present concert halls. . . . This is the ideal I am working for. Will anyone help me to attain...
...edge of the Arctic Ocean but "no developments . . . justify any hope that the United States will eventually become independent of foreign sources of supply," according to the 1922 Tin report of the U. S. Tariff Commission. Practically no tin is found in continental U. S. Appreciable deposits exist in Cornwall (known since the time of the Phoenicians, the Philistines), Burma, Siam, China, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Portugal, Spain and scattered regions of Africa...