Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whether or not they are content with the human scene, readers of On My Way will find "that c'toonist's" informal record of his own mountain-shiftings a merry masterpiece of shirt-sleeve autobiography, sketched by a pen that achieves with words the same quaint economy for which its line is famed...
...gloriously won, in spite of tactical errors at Shiloh, brutal human waste at Cold Harbor, Grant was unfortunately awarded the presidency. He knew nothing about politics or human character, neither of these imponderables being tangible matter of action. His chosen advisers were crooked or incompetent (the minister to England, a poker expert, taught the game to British peers, started a fad), his policies pathetic; but grimly he stuck to both. Scandals rivaling Teapot Dome culminated in the gold corner by Gould and Fisk, shrewd rascals who dazzled Grant with their powerful wealth, involved the honest dupe in fiasco...
...read the examinations set for those concentrating in such fields. This applies with equal force to all fields in which General Examinations are given, with the distinct purpose of testing ability to coordinate and compare the varied features of several periods of history or several divisions of human knowledge...
...turnstile to force men to supply themselves with credentials before they enter the Reading Period. Those who have been there before, and know the amount of required or suggested study that fetters the period should be little inclined to let course work overlap. But if in the light of human nature this examination is inescapable; and if in the light of educational tradition its November predecessor is desirable: such allowable conservatism still does not make the presence of a third hour examination in such reading courses as English 32, anything but an inexcusable and cluttering imposition...
...play is from the pen of no less a person than William Somerset (Of Human Bondage) Maugham. Melodramatic in outline, declamatory in some lines, slow in the first act, it remains not a profound play, but a sensitive, skillful...