Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contact, or rather of the right contact, between student and teacher. I know that the introduction of the tutors has been designed to overcome this defect, but I feel that their wings are clipped before they start by the very nature of their task. Their purpose is to help their men prepare for the general examinations in English-- examinations based on the assumption that knowledge of English literature is to be attained only through a survey of each period in its historical development, and through a study of all representative men whether great artists or not. A knowledge of this...
...strong personal love for literature as one of the fine arts, he has not time to share his enthusiasm with those who come to him for direction, no time to arouse in them a taste for beauty, or to show that the cultivation of critical standards may help each one to find in his reading something that may always give pleasure. Were he to spend time for these things his students would probably fail in the examinations, and in consequence he would be a poor tutor in the light of present Harvard requirements...
Scenery, staging and the dialogue--which is supreme--would, however, lose much of their attraction were it not for the presence of Jane Cowl in the leading role of Amytis. It is she who carries the play along with a finesse and verve which cannot help to instill enthusiasm even into a Boston audience. Nor is she ill supported. Richie Ling as Fabius Maximus portrays the typical hundred percent patriot with both feet planted with all the weight of his 200 odd pounds firmly on the ground. The silent thoughtful rather introspective Hannibal is perfectly presented by Philip Merivale...
Aged 50, lawyer and judge, no Southern demagog, respected by his colleagues, no less obscure nationally than was Senator Harding in 1920, no more an "innovation" than any other "favorite son" candidate, Walter Franklin George of Georgia will help Southern Democrats mark time. Whether or not they profit by the experiment, he will profit by the experience...
...Chunk (pronounced Mok Tchunk) a network of branches spread westward from the main line up among the anthracite coal mines, whose hard, black products give the Lehigh Valley Railroad its soubriquet of "Black Diamond." At Mauch Chunk the main line gradient becomes so steep that a "helper" engine must help pull on the trains. Thence the roadbed becomes a chute between cliffs, trees, coal tupples and culm banks into Wilkes-Barre,? on the Susquehanna River. And so onward, between Senaco and Cayuga of the Finger Lakes in Central New York?trees, orchards, vineyards, farms. Due west of the lakes...