Word: medium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many professors, indeed, admit the defliciencies of tests. The difficulty is to find a substitute medium for translating intelligence and industry into the official alphabet. And in determining grades it would seem necessary always to place some reliance upon examinations. But this necessity should by no means prove a barrier to other forms of cultural inquisition...
...recognition accorded Professor Francke by his fellow-scholars is appropriately through the medium of gifts to the Germanic Museum. By aiding the development of a man's life interest gratitude may well be expressed. And Professor Francke's services indeed deserve the commendation awarded them. In his seventy-first year, he may look back on scholarly work well done...
...coast of Brittany, the author visited long after dark one gale-infested night. The other story, "Bewitcher," harks back to "Ethan Frome," and the stark New England of six foot snows and ice-crusted consciences. In the first of these she seems the author playing with her medium. In the second there is a breath of that frosty air which made "Ethan Frome" so welcome to habitues of Mrs. Whartons usual conservatory atmosphere...
...Bennett Bean of the University of Virginia, from a profound anatomical study of races, reported that the white races are advancing in superiority over the yellow and black; if not, the yellow and black are receding. He reached this finding after dividing humanity, irrespective of color, into high, medium and low types, then subdividing these grades according to color. Among the low, those with deficient mentality and bodies, stubby fingers, slanting foreheads and other stigmata, there were relatively few whites. Not so the black and yellow...
...something and had a monument erected by your friends to commemorate the fact. Would it please you to have Mazie and her boy friend taking pictures with your monument for background? Your heroic bones would squirm in the final resting place and your spirit would sock some unsuspecting medium in the seventh veil. At least, if they wouldn't, you are not fit to be called a four hundred descent Bostonian...