Word: needs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those who do not. So far as possible the committee has tried to serve both groups. The temporary lounging room at the school for the students living outside has been provided with magazines so far as possible. At the dormitory, also, the committee has tried to fill any need which has arisen either in the daily routine or in the special social functions...
...amounts to the abandonment of the case system. This may be called the situation method, for we endeavor to place the student in a position covering many cases, where he will frequently find himself in practice, and also to bring to bear on the situation various rules he will need. Cases are used only to give specific illustrations of a given position. This may give a better preparation for actual practice than memorizing great numbers of individual cases and names...
Bishop Furse need have no fear of his bathtub scenes being flashed on New York screens, unless he wishes to install a television sending apparatus in his bathroom and engage expert operators; unless he deliberately commands that the bathing scene be transmitted through the ether. Incidently, at present stage of development, the apparatus takes up more room than a piano, costs more thar 20 pianos...
...fervor when he wrote this novel. He cries out in his preface: "Then, in God's name, let us tell wiser, broader, deeper stories- stories with morals more significant and rich. . . . Let us recover, if possible, something of an epic note. To do that there is no need of high-flown words or violent actions. Only a constant sense of the streaming generations, of the processes of historic change, of the true character of man's magnificent and tragic adventure between earth...
...present certainly need not envy the past for its abundance of characters; the question is whether the future will also be supplied; and the answer is that the probabilities are good. Specifically, the paperboys of the Waldorf and the hand-cart are promising for the time when the present stock is gone, and natural processes will doubtless attract enough new material to keep the quota filled. The dull picture of Harvard without characters will hardly need to be painted for the next generation...