Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your write-up of the Duke-Georgia Tech game was very fair and interesting. With two or three slight inaccuracies in your article regarding Wallace Wade, the facts in general are according to the football "dope" in this section...
...reveries of Watteau are the paintings of a gangling, red-haired feminine exquisite, now 52, who has lived and painted in Paris for 30 years. Last week the Findlay Galleries gave Marie Laurencin her first sola show in Manhattan in five years. A cadenced critique by Vanity Fair's onetime editor, Frank Crowninshield, defended from the charge of "boudoir art" Marie Laurencin's pale, obsessive ladies, "with those undefined pools of night which are their eyes, their magnolia-soft cheeks, their plumes of periwinkle blue and lips of fadeless rose...
...halls of the Boston Book Fair ring with applause for a handful of professors in modern American literature, some mention is due Harvard's department of Americana, of which these gentlemen form but a very small part...
...number of the country's leading experts in the field, and they simply cannot agree as to the best methods of presentation; indeed, they cannot agree entirely as to what an elementary course in mathematics should contain. Thus there can be no one examination that will be fair to every student...
Although a statement that Harvard gives fourteen different courses in elementary mathematics--all called "Math A"--would be gross exaggeration, nevertheless present lack of uniformity among the sections gives just that impression. Resolving not to permit the slightest hint of regimentation to cast its ominous shadow over their fair course, the men in charge of "Math A" have allowed the fourteen sections to become, in practice, almost wholly independent of one another. Not only teaching methods, but organization of material, examinations, and grading standards vary from section to section, and as a result men undertaking "Math A" can never...