Word: lets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think Mr. Caldwell's warm heart and sympathies ran away with him. Aren't we all rather forgetting that the typical and usual German is a sentimental cheery good soul? Let's judge a little more by the ones we know and meet and less by the ones we only read about in the papers...
...whether he liked it or no, and 2) it would enact most of John Hanes's plan. Messrs. Hanes and Morgenthau were discreetly reticent. Loyal Representative Bob Doughton squirmed so much that Pat Harrison told him not to worry, the Senate would write the bill. Franklin Roosevelt reddened, let Pat Harrison leave unrebuked, uncontradicted...
...another place he asks "Are the categories hitherto used in, let us say, University teaching, in our times, and our fathers', really serviceable? Does any really good mind ever get a kick out of studying stuff that has been put into water-tight compartments and hermetically sealed...
...realistic solution of this dilemma would mean a compromise between numbers and the ideal of extra-curricular learning. If President Conant is still anxious for large numbers of Harvard men to be bathed in America's past, let the Program catch the Freshmen as they enter the Yard, fresh and eager to try their intellectual wings. Let the farcical Bliss Prizes be abolished and the money be given for the best Freshman essays on some phase of American civilization. This year's successful tie-up with English A can be extended to other Freshman courses, and will undoubtedly draw...
...upperclassmen let the Plan be an experiment in self-education. President Conant himself has said the student must "learn that formal instruction is no necessary part of the educational process." The study of American civilization is particularly fitted for such an experiment; in seeking behind his personal experience for the underlying forces that make American civilization, an undergraduate may learn that not all knowledge is to be found in textbooks, syllabi, and lecture notes...