Word: needless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...needless to enlarge on the statements of the industrious CRIMSON editor. The new buildings here are wired for telephones, and there is no possible ground for supposing that their installation at Yale would result in conditions any different from those described at Harvard...
...began with a telephone call. A simple, innocent, unsuspecting Adams House Sophomore was informed in no uncortain terms that he was to report at Cambridge Police Station Number Two to answer very serious charges. Needless to say, our frightened young man was on hand. Visions of prison walls, deportation, even the chair passed in rapid succession before his eyes as he waited. Now that he thought of it, he had made some pretty serious criticism of the N.R.A. at dinner last week. In a moment a gruff voice demanded him to plead guilty or not guilty to charges of running...
...Portly Actor Mitchell has his hands full with them, trying to get them out of scrapes, listening to their shocking biological revelations, accepting their low regard for his intellect. The surprising thing about Fly Away Home is that none of these juvenile antics is anything but delightful, wholesome fun. Needless to say, it is the children who straighten out the adult triangle...
Since the tutorial system at Harvard is simply the ultimate refinement of the small class system, Dr. Drury's theory is of immediate interest. If the large class is equally valuable, the University could be relieved of a needless financial burden. It is precisely the "deep personal intimacy" that Dr. Drury mentioned as one of the virtues of the private school, however, that justifies the tutorial system, and, to a lesser degree, the small class. Doubtless the learning that can be summarized in outlines and tested by surveys can be equally well delivered to larger groups, but the deeper, more...
Authors Schoonmaker & Marvel put in a chapter of good words for U. S. wine, say the U. S. has a needless inferiority complex about its domestic wine, but will have to clean house in the matter of dishonest labeling. They give a chapter apiece to the wines of France, Germany. Italy, Spain and Portugal; tell how to buy wine-what to ask the dealer, what prices are right. Anxious hostesses may consult a table showing what wine to serve with what dish. (Beer-swillers, whiskey-totters will find nothing for them in The Complete Wine Book; but Authors Schoonmaker & Marvel...