Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conant makes clear that his main interest is in that small fraction of the student body who are really creative scholars. His departure from President Lowell is here obvious. The tutorial system, the House Plan, the other great achievements of President Lowell's regime were directed at "making scholarship honorable," and making it honorable for the average Harvard undergraduate. They are adapted to this end; they were modelled after an English university system that has always been devoted to a class whose homogeneity is not primarily intellectual. The kind of education which they effect is a personal, and a mutual...
...Vassar's own bald-headed president. Dr. Henry Noble MacCracken-an experienced amateur actor, who entertains his students with burlesque speeches on Founder's Day and two years ago performed as Theseus in Euripides' Hippolytns. Professor Sterlsky played the part of a Cossack. Fear has two main plot themes: 1) Ivan Borodin's efforts to deal with his political superiors, who appoint incompetents to assist him and interfere with his scientific researches; 2) the sad case of Amalya, a withered female aristocrat. Borodin makes Amalya his housekeeper while officials appoint her ignorant daughter...
...interesting to examine the findings of the gold delegation, as it has since been called because light is shed on the direction in which Mr. Roosevelt may proceed now that he has in his initial steps adopted the main principles of the League's report...
...There are two main reasons why Chicago gained its former criminal reputation: collustorn between politicians and the police force and a lack of hard prosecution. And, of course prohibition financed the gangster magnificently...
...regard to our tutorial system. I agree with him in his opinion that the system should not be limited to honor students. There are too many others who profit by it. However, it is evident that the present situation here is satisfactory to neither tutors nor students. The main reason is that there are too many tutees who have been thrown into the plan against their own inclinations and who therefore rebel against the work. A man who comes to college should be old enough to know how much time and effort he wants to spend on scholastic pursuits...