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Word: knowes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...statistical data. Almost every statement made in the editorial appears to me to be erroneous or misleading. Marriott's Revolution of 1848 was in no sense a prescribed book, and every member of--the course was free to read something else on the same subject. Now that I know that all members of the course were eager to read this particular work I appreciate the necessity of getting additional copies for the library. Since there has never been a complaint on this matter before, I take it that the great increase in the enrollment has created an unexpected difficulty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quite Right | 12/12/1929 | See Source »

...laboratory requires a great deal of time and study, for it is one course where one must know exactly what the procedures are for and what to deduce from the results. Much difficulty is usually encountered in separating the different elements and often positive results are obtained for elements not present. Consequently one must know thoroughly all tests and impurities that might produce these tests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sixth Confidential Guide Covers Some 30 Undergraduate Courses | 12/11/1929 | See Source »

Professor Dewing has written a book on the Financial Policy of Corporations which is so formidable that it may scare off the average undergraduate who does not know that Professor Dewing's lecture delivery is one of the least puzzling in the College. Most undergraduates on the first day of the course look wildly around for the nearest exit, convinced that they have wandered into a philosophy lecture. Bailing his trap with a summary of the corporation from Rome to the present day. Professor Dewing has the class following him, at a distance of several sea leagues, by the third...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sixth Confidential Guide Covers Some 30 Undergraduate Courses | 12/11/1929 | See Source »

...Dramatic Club's performance is tame, it is certainly the faultiness of the play, not of the production. Mr. Goodnow, who knows his theatre, has done all that is humanly possible to fill up the cracks in Milue's poor construction with good directorial coment. The result is a good production of a faulty, but not uninteresting play Act I is dull writing: in Act II Milne strains our imagination and the physical possibilities of the stage in the arrangement of the dream scene. Act III is almost worthy of Milne as we have come to know his fine abilities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "SUCCESS" IS PLEASANT BUT NOT REMARKABLE | 12/11/1929 | See Source »

...class deems these elections so important that they warrant the personal attention of every member even though certainly a quarter of these members have no concern in them, and do not know the candidates. I repeat, if this is true, then the elections should be taken out of student hands. It might even be worthwhile to bring in mercenaries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: These Political | 12/10/1929 | See Source »

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