Word: knitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Certainly a college has failed if the student has been unable to knit together all the various facts and the intangible atmosphere of his four years into a philosophy of his own. It is only the tying up of all he has learned and the unity necessary to understanding that can give any value to a college education. Yet Dean Hawkes seems to be carried away by his conception of an ideal college. While the completely liberalized curriculum which he advocates allows full freedom to the individual, it also puts too much dependence on the individual. It was to remedy...
...later life. While the primary result of study in Europe is not definite in nature, as for example the factual knowledge which can be acquired at any good American university; it consists of the less material but more lasting goods of life. Of course, a man completing a closely-knit plan of work would be injured by the break that a year's absence would introduce. But such a man is altogether capable of making of his own decision in the matter; the question should be settled by the individual, and not by the University...
Last week the complete report was made public, in a volume called Re-Thinking Missions,* November choice of the Religious Book Club. Excerpts published in the Press had already caused mutterings. But Re-Thinking Missions proved to be well-knit, sincere, lucid, the work of 15 able men and women whose diversities of creeds and interests seemed to preclude collective bias. Thoughtful Protestants had withheld comment until the appearance of the complete report. They now agreed?whether or not they agreed with all the Commission's opinions ?that it was a major milestone in the development of church doctrine...
...Odyssey, he says, is "neat, close-knit, artful and various" but "never huge or terrible," never "great art. ... In this tale every big situation is burked and the writing is soft." Homer he calls "as muddled an antiquary as Walter Scott. . . . He thumb-nailed well" but his characterization was "thin and accidental." Though some modern scholars agree with him that The Odyssey is a much later work than The Iliad, most will think Shaw goes too far in saying "this Homer lived too long after the heroic age to feel assured and large." Penelope is "the sly cattish wife," Odysseus...
...wraps were offered under the head: "WRAP HER UP AND TAKE HER HOME." His was the direction, but about-townish writers like Margaret Fishback turned out the copy. A Macy-Collins-Fishback advt. of last week: a naked "brand-new baby, hot off the griddle," yowling lustily for "hand-knit woolies." Caption: "NATURE IN THE ROAR...