Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scholastic victory of the University has brought to the foreground at Yale the matter of more intensive requirements for concentration. The position of a member of the Yale team, reported yesterday, is very distinctly in favor of courses more difficult than those demanded at present of the honors man, who alone has the privilege of concentrating his work in a particular field. There is also implicated a request that every student should choose, as at Harvard, a field of concentration: this attitude, together with approving words for the tutorial system, is indication that Yale has been stirred to sincere self...
...their bust not so much to tell what they thought or to show how they could think as to tell about thinkers and show that they remembered of what thinkers have thought. That is undoubtedly a brain test Whether it is the ideal test of brain power is another matter...
...young men, it is probable, produced any literature within the same space of time allowed for the examination. For any of them to have done so would have been so phenomenal as to upset the assumptions under which the test was planned in the first instance. For that matter, if Yale and Harvard could at will turn out young men prepared to produce literature on short notice the whole prestige of literature as a rare art would be gone. Pallas News
...matter what your proportions may be, we have models which will give you an air of modish slenderness?and which we know will...
...TRAINING OF AN AMERICAN?The Earlier Life of Walter H. Page?Burton J. Hendrick?Houghton Mifflin ($5.00). The two-volume life and letters of Walter H. Page, Wartime ambassador to England, were worthy best sellers. That a third volume should now appear, antedating the others in subject matter, suggests the frequent publishing ruse of selling a dull re-hash on the strength of the original success. Nothing of the sort is true in this case, partly because of Burton Hendrick's studied sense of the dramatic, mostly because of the essential fullness of Page's life before he ever thought...