Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Probably the best way to give this varied group of measures their optimum weights would be to ask a group of recognized leaders in the field of higher education to express their judgments at to their relative importance as crietria and then average the results of these judgments. No such attempt is here made. Instead, they have all been given equal weight in combining them into a single composite measure by the method of average ranks. Each of the institutions has been ranked in each of the 28 features according to the data given in Mr. Foster's tables...
...eschews them entirely in Ecce Puer (1936), his single four-quatrain poem written during the last decade. His later poems, which in general hew to the line of modern Irish minor verse, in their essential scope are no advance over his earlier pseudo-madrigals. All arise from and express similar, unimportant sensations: casual pangs felt by a sensitive nature in the clutch of existence...
Further there is the opportunity for candidates to express themselves on all national, state, and local issues, and to write editorials supporting their own points of view and also editorials in furtherance of CRIMSON policy on national subjects. As book reviews, play and movie reviews, Vagabonds, and Crimes all come under the jurisdiction of the Editorial Board, anyone interested in these specialized subjects will have a chance to try his hand at them...
...Great Society which in title at least was the obvious forerunner of Pundit Lippmann's latest book) who really fired Lippmann's imagination, gave his sprouting career its direction. When Lincoln Steffens, the late great muckraker, went looking in Harvard Yard for "the ablest mind that could express itself in writing," Lippmann, by almost unanimous recommendation, got the job of Steffens' assistant on Everybody's Magazine...
Newark in traffic volume leads not only the U. S. but the world. This year close to 300,000 passengers, over 4,000,000 Ib. of mail and over 2,500,000 Ib. of express will be handled. One hundred and twenty planes a day roar off Newark's runways compared with less than 100 out of Berlin, London or Paris. But Newark is 14 miles and 40 minutes from the centre of Manhattan, suffers the resentful opposition of every loyal flying New Yorker...