Word: hampering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Educators have long dreamed of a Utopian circle of earnest, well-meaning students, an ideal working unit, with no professors to hamper free intellectual development by the imposition of mechanical exercises and bootless reports. Discussion in this happy family would replace lectures; and idea-killing assignments would be unknown. The difficulty, of course, has been in finding the earnest students. But now, university education appears to be returning to its sources, and the mediaevalist recalls the scenes in Bologna when the students at the University drove their unpopular instructors from the gates of the town...
Some Melancholy Mishaps In After-the-War Tolerance The Story. What story there is, is tucked away in inconspicuous corners of the book so as not to hamper the author in developing his real theme-post-war Europe. Bertram Pollard is one of those unusually effective majors in the War who find themselves correspondingly unequipped for earning a living after it. Pollard is married to Joyce, patrician to the tips of her fine fingers. But he has other demands on his sympathy-he is half-Irish, one brother-in-law is an Irish revolutionary, later caught and executed, another...
Opera House.--Robert Mantell with Genevieve Hamper in the standard repertoire in which he established his reputation some decades ago. This afternoon, "As You Like It"; tonight "Hamlet"; Thursday, "Richelieu"; Friday, "Macbeth"; Saturday matinee, "Merchant of Venice"; Saturday night, "Richard...
Miss Genevieve Hamper did her best with the flat-chested part of Julie, making it a little more than bearable but less than convincing. The rest of the cast was negligible. A one-man play is this, but it was never intended to be done by a supporting company that found verse difficult to say, and more difficult to make heard. Too often did the minor players leave the stage with a racking stage laugh that chilled the spectator, and gave him a sense that they were pleased to have done for the moment with their share in the production...
...Congressman Tinkham of Massachusetts that the quotas of the several states in the House of Representatives should be revised so as to conform to the Fourteenth Amendment, looks suspiciously like an attempt to dodge an issue. President Harding and his party's leaders in Congress are not anxious to hamper the growth of their political influence in the South by any obnoxious investigation of the negro disenfranchisement, prevalent in many states below the Mason-Dixon line. The South has always been extremely sensitive on this point and it is indeed expedient if not just to leave a problem such...