Word: inferiors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Prime Minister Baron Güchi Tanaka of the Seiyukai party obtained 221 seats. There appeared only one other party of comparable size, the Minseito, with 214. Definitely inferior are the 16 Independents, the 8 Laborites, the 4 Business Party deputies, and the 3 members of the Kakushin Club...
...them play unconfined over impossibly wide fields of knowledge for several years, without any strict disciplining of the retentive powers, which are susceptible to improvement, appears but a waste of time. And this is the widely heralded tendency of a humanistic education whose graduates are deplorably inferior in actual knowledge to the products of the colleges of a century...
...their own tastes in the particular kind of work they are to teach. In the second half year the various sections of the course pursue specialized lines of study. But, in spite of this, I believe there is need for a much greater individual opportunity. Now that only the inferior Freshmen are required to take English A, the instructor's task in the course has become even less attractive than formerly, and it is more essential that the section men should not be confined to the teaching of it alone. They should be allowed to direct advanced literature courses...
...cases a surface of the same size, the colors of the original. The effect, while it has none of the impersonal cold quality of a copy or print, misses being a duplicate of its original by the same distinction that makes a phonographic reproduction, however much perfected, not necessarily inferior to but indubitably different from its model. Facsimiles are not however intended to be imitations...
...Laugh. The stately figure of Fannie Hurst strode in among last week's horde of notables with plays for sale. Miss Hurst's play was concerned with Jewish matters, as was her great short story Humoresque, later acted by Laurette Taylor. The latest, inferior to Humoresque, is moderately well performed by Edna Hibbard. She marries a crook, reforms him. Her simple Jewish parents are much harassed by wealthy surroundings thrust upon them by an unexpectedly prosperous son who sells antiques...