Word: maine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opening of a new undergraduate Field of Concentration, or the building upon courses already established. Each suggestion has measurable validity; each is open to sharp criticism. And the question as to what extent the teaching of journalism can be divorced from actual newspaper experience cannot be disentangled from the main theme. Then, too, the will's phraseology must be kept in mind. Even today it is possible to see the loose constructionists and the strict going to the mat about the problem of just what constitutes "the promotion and elevation of journalism...
...visiting debating team will have lunch in Lowell House at noon and will then go to the station. The time allotted for the debate is one hour with ten minutes apiece for the main speakers and five for the rebuttals...
Euno R. Hobbing, and Julian S. Hess will uphold the affirmative side of the question, while the opposite point of view will be maintained by Paul W. Cherington, and David F. Aberle. The main speeches will be of eight and ten minute duration, while five minutes will be allotted each side for the purpose of refutation...
...gift book in which Alice Huger Smith's paintings of lagoons, salt creeks, rice fields in winter, threshing and harvesting scenes, easily carry off all honors. Dr. Sass's discussion is about evenly divided between interesting facts on the Rice Coast and dull arguments about slavery, the main point of which is that a true Athenian democracy was developing on the Rice Coast before the Abolitionists spoiled it. A Plantation Boyhood tells of the life at Smithfield, rich, well-run 715-acre plantation on the Combahee, two days' ride from Charleston...
...broken up this Manhattan idyll with four long interludes that are made up of snapshots of city life: quarreling tenement dwellers, lovers lying on the roof in the heat, card players in a midtown hotel, a pair of middle-aged Lesbians quarreling, a sailor picking up a girl. Main trouble with When Night Descends is that the brief snapshots break up the central story, are usually more interesting and original than the one they interrupt...