Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eighteen years ago Henry C. Lytton, 69, retired as active head of The Hub, one of Chicago's big medium-priced clothing stores. He turned his job over to his son George Lytton. Last fortnight Son Lytton died. Six days later Father Lytton, now 87, sat down at his son's desk, once more became Hub's president...
...prose" as a categorical imperative is a delusion: the most ornate style conceivable might be as perfect and "invisible" a projection of the narrative fact as a stripped style. But considering the atmosphere which contemporary writers have to re-create or be silent, it is probably the best available medium. For her mastery of it Mrs. Parker ought to be remembered with Ring Lardner. It is true that absolute objectivity, for all but the greatest writers, is an impossible attitude to maintain, and Mrs. Parker does not always maintain it. But by the time the reader becomes conscious that...
...Stone's work endures because he acclimatizes tissues before he fixes them in their new home. To acclimatize new gland tissue, Professor Stone takes a quantity of the patient's blood, drains out the serum. The serum, placed in proper containers under proper conditions, becomes a culture medium in which the gland tissue to be grafted is placed. The gland tissue gradually becomes accustomed to the serum, and thus to the biological character of its owner-to-be. When Dr. Stone finally fits a thyroid or parathyroid graft into a new body, the graft suffers no shock, takes...
...understand the liberal arts situation in the University. In Europe, culture consists of a good knowledge of the classics, of literature and history. In this country a knowledge of practical science is more important than a knowledge of the classics. Harvard is attempting to give this medium between the scientific and the liberal, this American culture, to its students, and it appears to be succeeding. However, care must be taken to keep these non-liberal courses such as Military Science or Aerial Photography, as subsidiaries to the liberal arts courses. Once they are given too important a place...
...fact that points unequivocally to the conclusion that ought to have been, if indeed it was not, obvious from the beginning. The tutorial system must, if Harvard is to foster any real intellectual interest, become predominant. The course system must become subsidiary, it must become simply the undergraduate's medium of contact with the professor whose knowledge and personality command more of a following than can be adequately handled by individual conferences...