Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tendency among graduates to lose touch with their college upon entering the business or professional world. Presumably the average undergraduate leaves Harvard with the idea of maintaining a contact of some sort with the University. For the fulfillment of this desire, the various Harvard clubs from a very practical medium, but lose much of their effectiveness in postponing membership eligibility until the severance of all active connection with the college...
...thought and dreamed. Yet today I am afraid there is less music in the heart and mind of the common man than ever before in history. I gave them the motion picture. At first I thought it was a toy. Then, too late, I saw that it was the medium of a new art. For by that time it had become merely a new racket for the pants-makers, and millions of minds were being trivialized and anaesthetized by that endless flicker of falseness and venality. How much of my work was actually applied to the service of a sane...
...scheme of things, for if an individual has the right to take a drink when he feels like it, a privilege which Dr. Wilson would not for the world deny anyone, the only way of obtaining that drink when licensed sale of liquor is prohibited is through the medium of bootleggers. Under these circumstances the more pertinent question arises as to just what features Dr. Wilson considers less objectionable in the unlicensed sale of dangerous liquors than in the licensed sale of reliable liquors...
...interest of the business of the country and in order that other matters may be brought before this body for solution." Up rose Mississippi's Democratic Harrison to inquire sarcastically of Senator Watson just which rates the President favored?the high rates of the Old Guard, the medium rates of the Young Guard, the low rates of the Coalition. Senator Watson could not say, though he made a 90-minute speech because, as he said, he was "baited and taunted into...
...predictions have failed to take into account the personal element. After all, it is better for a student to get personal attention from a second-rate instructor than impersonal lectures from the highest man in the field. As historical milestones talking films have an assured future but as a medium of education their future is limited to a large degree...