Word: monitors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moscow bureau, Boston's Christian Science Monitor asked recently: "Has Russia gone Democratic?", referring to Premier Molotov's recent announcement of "secret, direct and equal" suffrage. Excerpts from the tart answer of Monitor Muscovites last week: "If the Communists were content to express their aims honestly, and to describe conditions in Russia as they are, it would be much easier to sympathize with them. Unfortunately, they prefer to misrepresent conditions not only to their own people, but to the outside world as well, to lay claims to a democracy which still has no existence in Russia...
Some say that it's all concerning a matter that happened in a lecture room where one was a monitor, Others say that it's due to a mess surrounding a very rare library book. There are even some who lay the blame to a certain parking space at a dance one night. But they're all wrong...
RUSSIA'S IRON AGE-William Harry Chamberlin-Little, Brown ($4). Fruit of 12 years' observation of the Soviet experiment, by the Russian correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor...
...becomes apparent that a revolution is taking place in Harvard's class-room methods when lecture halls are no longer to be kept filled by the ministrations of a monitor and the shadow of a "parrot" examination. It is an interesting sign that the young government instructors, all of them tutors, who have volunteered the new series of lectures, regard the series as a valuable experiment in the technique of presentation. Harvard is to be treated to a view of what spirited informal and purely extra-curricular lectures can accomplish in the way of presenting information. At least so much...
...perpetuating Board at the top, has kept things going since her death. There are one-man Committees on Publications in every state (two in California), and close to the Mother Church in Boston the Christian Science Publishing Society unceasingly grinds out printed matter. World-famed is the Christian Science Monitor, circulation 129,260. The Sentinel runs to 170,784 copies weekly; monthly Heralds are published in French, German, Dutch, Scandinavian and Braille. Last week when 5,000 members from many lands met in Boston for the annual meeting of the Mother Church, of most interest to them...