Word: finds
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Harvard then must find some workable solution to this essential problem or fall even further behind. A new theory now gaining acceptance is that the best elementary language teacher is a native of the country on which the course is focused. Such a man has a better insight into the language and will often do a better job than an American scholar twice...
...feeling of restrained emotion pervades each paragraph; the prose is unpoetical in any obvious sense--you can't scan it--but is yet extremely rich, especially in its combinations of sight and touch. Tension mounts to find release in some sensation such as the feel of soft fabric after a description of a memory exercise...
...implicit, as Robinson can control the relationship between the reader and the narrator. Unfortunately, a defect of the "excerpt from a novel" as a literary form is here evident; the figure of the narrator can only begin to emerge. The reader finishes wanting to see more and unable to find it in print...
Also especially worthy of mention is Thomas Whitbread's "The Noble Reader and the Sight of Words." Actually more a prose poem than anything else, it describes the distraction which the image of words on a page can offer in an attempt to find their sense. Lightly philosophic, it is easy to read, despite the myriad images...
...little added advice--go out and find the real facts on the subject of your articles, and then write them so that people will respect you and your paper. Your ignorance is beyond recall--also, remember, if you can't be an athlete, be an athletic supporter. A Friend of Harvard Athletics...