Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purposes, to maintain a free and open forum for the discussion of the larger issues of public policy, as well as issues of University policy, to carry on a program of political and economic education with respect to the immediate problems of the day, and to provide a common medium for the expression of opinion in which all the progressive minded members of the University might share...
...believe that no limit should be placed upon the initiative of the college editor. Every field of human activity should be open to his editorial ruminations. We base this belief upon our conception of the editorial as merely a thought provoking medium, and not, as some have come to view it, as something akin to an oracle. Practical journalists have derided these admittedly radical college editors and have cited them as valid reasons for a literal "chaining" of the college editor. We, in turn, could easily find in this history of American journalism many examples of prejudiced, radical editors...
...steel manufacture and the men who engage in the task. Unlike the etchings of Pennell which represent merely the image that reaches the human eye, the rich oils of Beneker convey all the realism of being, and all the strength and solidity of steel. Perhaps it is the medium in which the work is done that accounts for the difference; the paintings depict with more life-like fidelity and color the shapes of qualities of things, the stylus tends to tinge the reproduction with the impression that the mind receives, and the imagination which is evoked by the vision...
Bernard De Voto '18, instructor in English, has tendered his resignation as editor of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine. The magazine which appears quarterly was established in 1892 as a medium for graduate comment and criticism...
Hotel Continental (Tiffany). Having stumbled upon unity-of-place in Vicki Baum's Grand Hotel, cinema producers have been fascinated by it, presumably because it contradicts the prime advantage of their medium-ubiquity. Hotel Continental varies the unity-of-place idea by nearly personifying it. This time the hotel is an old one about to be torn down and the denizens who scamper through its antique corridors are bent on the forlorn gaiety of a farewell party. Mingling with the other guests is a cosmopolitan thief (Theodore Von Eltz) who hopes to retrieve some money which he cached...