Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conant makes clear that his main interest is in that small fraction of the student body who are really creative scholars. His departure from President Lowell is here obvious. The tutorial system, the House Plan, the other great achievements of President Lowell's regime were directed at "making scholarship honorable," and making it honorable for the average Harvard undergraduate. They are adapted to this end; they were modelled after an English university system that has always been devoted to a class whose homogeneity is not primarily intellectual. The kind of education which they effect is a personal, and a mutual...
...Brain Trust and proceeding on down to the lower classes of civil servants under the banner of the National Recovery Administration, the A.A.A., and others. These extra workers were chosen without aid of any competitive system of examinations. With the ranks of the civil service steadily swelling, it is obvious that some equitable, competitive system of examinations should be set up, or the crys of Lord Hewart's spiritual followers will be more than justified...
...Avon Case would not be overruled by the Supreme Court. Aside from the question as to whether it already has been tacitly overruled (see Crowell v. Benson, in which the Court takes a day off in a "lazy, hazy sort of way"), does it not seem obvious that if the Court even attempted to review the findings of fact by administrative tribunals, its docket would be swamped? The Administration has set up all sorts of new administrative tribunals, as well as increasing the work of those previously established, and the decisions of these bodies are already swelling the archives...
...maritime disaster. Written with one eye on Hollywood and the other on old newspaper clippings-incidents in the play suggest Sinclair Lewis, the Vestris sinking, Walter Winchell, and other topical importances-False Dreams, Farewell is a lively and engrossing one-roof melodrama, well acted, fast and full of obvious but persuasive tricks. Its most entertaining personage is Novelist Christopher Jarret whose wife is hideous and mercenary. When she accuses him of overenthusiasm in their conjugal relation, Jarret is amazed. "Look in the mirror," he says, "and tell me it is anything but a disagreeable habit.'' The Piccoli (produced...
...most obvious remedy for this lamentable situation is to provide more books containing only elementary and popular course exams like History 1, Economics A and Physics C for which the demand is greatest. The bound books that now contain everything in a given department from, say, the lower reaches of Slavic 4 to the higher reaches of Indic Philology would then no longer exist quite so much for the benefit of one student to the exclusion of all the potential intermediate beneficiaries. However, the most effective method of accomplishing this result in its entirely would be to stock the library...