Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...history of the period, one is not utterly lost who uses this book as his first text of Americana. For those who are acquainted with the troubles through which the people of the day passed the reminiscences will prove most interesting to follow. The account is not a mere Schlesingeresque list of facts as some may unfortunately fear, but it is a story of those years written in a most readable manner. For those who look to it as a reference for certain idiosyncrasies of the period it offers a wealth of information, which as far as can be discerned...
...feeling is that the Court is in a mess either way. They say that if it decides against the government, the Court will be packed by adding to the number of justices. If it decides in favor, it is said that they will be thought to be mere "Yes-men." At any rate, the capitalist reader had better be careful about his securities for a while...
Discussing the difficulty of defining scholarship, Mr. Murdock comments, "It seems quite clear that scholarship does not and need not mean mere dry-as-dust heaping up of fact, and that not all which passes at any given time as excellent teaching is necessarily of genuine educational value." A man may interest and excite students, and even stimulate them to valuable work of their own, and still achieve less of really enduring educational value than some other teacher less immediately impressive to his pupils...
...allowed to concentrate in History and Literature. The Department limits the number of its concentrators, selecting only the best candidates, and the effectiveness of tutoring in History and Literature is common knowledge. English, on the other hand, is a subject which many students select for concentration merely because they have no special interest in any other field. Hence this Department is burdened with large numbers of lukewarm students whose highest scholarly aim is to get a "gentleman's C" in their courses. It is not to be wondered at, therefore, that on the whole the tutorial system functions much less...
...Student Council wishes to make it clear that the activities and publicity releases of the Junior Election Committee over and above the mere routine of holding the elections and counting the ballots was entered into and carried through by the Junior Election Committee or members thereof as unauthorized individuals...