Word: martyrdoms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scrap-basket scribblings he managed to guess very shrewdly just what plans were under consideration. The beautiful Camilla smuggled the documents out of the country to France and Jugoslavia in the frames of oil paintings. Both confessed, both were condemned to death though King Vittorio Emmanuele forestalled French martyrdom by commuting Camilla's sentence to life imprisonment...
...martyrdom of the Brown Daily Herald will reach front pages. That eventuality was as predictable as it was desired by the Herald's business department; for naturally enough, the legislative committee will find Brown staid as usual, will discover the Herald innocuous and its stand carefully circumscribed. But the whole affair is a singularly unfortunate commentary on the status of American undergraduate opinion in the councils of the mature judgment. It is eminently bad taste to couch a private albeit a worthy sentiment in the form of a public petition. It is deplorable that the American undergraduate press...
...CRIMSON. and the writer of such an editorial should familiarize himself with the history of the course, whereupon he would learn that its existing system is the result of an evolution from lectures to sections. I object, also, to his use of phrases such as the "unconcealed sense of martyrdom" to describe the manner of the Economics Department when it defends its policy for Economics A. The dramatic style calls in question the writer's good intention and is out of place in an unvarnished account of a field of concentration...
...uninspiring, and relatively uninstructive. Leaders in the de- partment have replied to the writer's criticism that the lecture system is incapable of giving the student a firm and realistic grip on the difficult problems of economic theory. They point to past experience for support. With unconcealed sense of martyrdom they explain how and why the lecture system was abandoned in the past. The fact remains, however, that dissatisfaction with the course is almost universal in the student body. It is to be earnestly hoped that a system of lectures supplemented by conferences and individual tutorial assistance...
...time we changed our attitude? Isn't it time we realized how futile war is, and came to an appreciation of just what the happy martyrdom is that war brings its dead...