Word: insights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dangerous youth derisively leveling the shafts of his Socialistic ridicule at the respectability of tht Victorian generation. Now Mr. Shaw is himself old and must in turn submit of an examination of his work at the hands of other young men provided with a new variety of wit and insight. Mr. Briuser speaks for the readers who have grown up since the War and to whom the "Men of the Nineties" are almost as distant as the Elizabethans...
...that the House Plan has changed Harvard physically is to utter a platitude. It takes almost equally as little insight to see how, for the sake of the House Plan, names, room prices, customs, and minor individual rights have been altered or swept aside. Instead of going to a professor's home one now visits at the 'master's lodgings;" instead of walking up the classic steps of Widener one reaches another library via a gilded lobby with a coloured ceiling...
Government 4 is not only recommended to those who are concentrating in the special field of international relations and diplomacy, but students of history will gain by taking it a clearer understanding of many historical situations. Others may acquire from it an insight into the news of the day. It may be considered as one of the most worthwhile courses in the Government department...
...joviality, learning, stimulation and insight that his every patient, student and colleague revered Sir William Osler as a demigod. For more than a decade (he died in 1919 at Oxford whither he had gone from Johns Hopkins), Medicine has agreed that there never was a studious, teaching practitioner like him. A request for a list of living U. S. doctors who approach Osler in knowledge, expertness and teaching last week brought answers from a jury representative of the profession. Out of 36 different names suggested as great in the U. S., the jury agreed only on the Brothers Mayo...
...have present during the convention small, motherly Mrs. Harriet Abbott ("Mother") Clark, widow of Rev. Francis Edward Clark who founded Christian Endeavor in Portland, Me. in 1881. Thrilled was she, she said, when President Hoover spoke of this "most enduring monument to the idealism, insight and organizing genius of its founder." Honorary vice president of the society, she listened eagerly at its meetings, let herself be photographed with William Quinn, Chief of San Francisco police. Burly Chief Quinn looked down at Mother Clark as she cocked a finger at him and said: "I hear the young people nowadays are quite...