Word: give
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...confined to foreign parts. If the movies have made the American nation conscious of clothes and polite manners, it is also claimed that the talkies will bring the country's speech to a high standard. Perhaps it is not too much to expect that the talkies will give the American people a solidarity of accent. In the hands of a few producers lies the fate of the nation's tongue...
...second point has been evidenced among a large number of schools, and a committee has been engaged in drawing up a new preparatory school curriculum. At least one boarding school of large size has, moreover, gone a step further and has introduced, more or less informally, courses designed to give the student some conception of the actual world within which he lives, such as can not be derived from the study of algebra or Latin. Their aim, namely, the general broad view over and the correlation of the various forces which have produced the contemporary state of mankind, is almost...
...combined clubs will render Beethoven's ninth Symphony. Just prior to this number the Orchestra will play its arrangement of Beethoven's first symphony. This is the second time this season that the Glee Club will give the ninth symphony, having rendered it the first time at the Pension Fund Concert last November. The concert also marks the second time this year that the Harvard and Radcliffe Clubs have appeared together...
...student is left to the mercies of the instructor. Frequently the instructor himself makes a mistake in the announcement, which, if provisions were properly made whereby all examinations were posted in the CRIMSON, would not have the disastrous effects it now has. If it is necessary to give hour examinations, it might be well to make some arrangement so that a man may be reasonably well assured of when and where he is to be examined. Zeroes that result from lack of sufficient notice of course quizes are neither to the credit of the courses nor fair to the student...
...books in their entirely were substituted for the present garbled productions, the time spent in reading them would at least give the reader some idea of the abilities of the author. Instructors in these elementary courses have admitted that the texts now used destroy the structure of the original work and leave but a residue of words that serve for little more than a memory exercise...