Word: latters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must be granted that this over specialization in the latter part of one's course is becoming more and more the defect of the Harvard system. Overzealous tutors encourage their charges to get their distribution off in their first two years--out of the way like an old shoe. Students attentive to this somewhat myopic suggestion often find themselves forgetting the excellencies outside their field just as they are acquiring the maturity to enjoy them. One of the purposes of Harvard's present system is the elimination of this sort of thing, and it is unfortunate that the Ph.D attitude...
...first place we have the new passion of nationalism; a passion even stronger in its potentialities for disaster than that of class or of race. M. Benda's analysis of the nationalism which grew up in the latter half of the nineteenth century and found its highest expression in the World War is keen and comprehensive. But it is not so much with the nationalism of men of action that M. Benda is concerned in his present work as with the nationalism of the intellectuals. Artists, scientists, philosophers, and poets, men of whom a certain degree of universality and detachment...
Zane Grey is not a Duco finish, Nor is it, fortunately, the finish of the motion picture industry. But there are those who believe one or both of these assertions. The former go to his pictures, the latter quite obviously...
...freedom and men tolerated contraceptives. England's birth rate declined. Recently the English birth rate has been increasing. Dr. George F. Buchan, medical officer of London, sought explanation. It lies with the women, he last week decided: "Every woman, every real woman, and there are more of the latter than the average person thinks, is desirous of having babies. . . . Present indications are that we are starting on another big family cycle...
People have been saying that the Cabinet is politically on the rocks, and especially that a three-sided split had opened between "Jix," Mr. Baldwin and "Winston." The latter statesman is the Right Honorable Winston Churchill, Chancellor of His Majesty's Exchequer; and "Jix" is His Majesty's tall, frock-coated, impeccable Secretary of State for Home Affairs...