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These periods, which are called "reading periods," will be given to assigned reading for laboratory work, to be done by the student without assistance from tutor or lecturer. A test of the reading will be given in the general examination. This means, as explained by Dean Moor, that there will be approximately six weeks in the academic year in which members of the three upper classes will be more or less engaged in educating themselves without help, or, it is added, hindrance from their elders. The great purpose of a college education being to train men to train themselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Outside Reading, Too | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...where he maintained an admirably unrepentant and sinister smile. To him the Othello of Louis Leon Hall was an excellent foil. Mr. Hall is portly, with a cheerful rotund face, which, well darkened, brought out the whites of his rolling eyes, and gave him the jolly aspect of a Moor who has made up many a Pullman berth in his time. It was perhaps to attain more dignity that he thundered and declaimed his lines, with sweeping gestures; but he did it well, and in his scenes with Desdemona he was all simple sincerity...

Author: By A. T. R. j., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/27/1927 | See Source »

...shoot grouse?" was a question which many an American wished but hesitated to ask Britons, last week. The best preliminary advice seemed to be: "First rent your moor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Grousing Begins | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

...this one scans the London Times and invariably finds, at the proper season, that a great many Scotsmen want to rent their grouse moors. Rental for a whole season may run up to £5,000 ($24,300) or more; but thrifty hunters know that they can often pick up a fair moor for a week or two at relatively trifling cost. Having rented a moor, one must then bring or buy much hunting gear, and, in any case, should wear the hunting costume of the moment. This ensemble, which varies slightly each season, is often topped off with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Grousing Begins | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

While waiting for this to happen no gentleman will omit a few modest, customary intimations that the number of birds which he slew last year on such-and-such a moor was really colossal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Grousing Begins | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

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