Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are few criticisms of any importance to be made in the present handling of the course in general, the first half year moves at a little too slow a pace, even considering the abilities of the Freshmen The lectures, while clear and interesting, parallel too closely the text book. A judicious choice of the more difficult problems for exposition in the lectures might help considerably. Finally, the night observations, except the one in which the constellations of the sky are learned, are of doubtful value...
Until this restriction is removed, or altered to compare at least with the parallel rule regulating cigarette sales, to comply with Undergraduate desires, save perhaps to allow students to bring their own beer into the dining rooms. But if the purpose of the present legislation be to promote temperance and respect for law, the Massachusetts legislature has, from the undergraduate point of view, acted with the same hasty assurance and disregard for public opinion which graced the promulgation of the same virtues...
...literary future naturally lies with the cultural, aristocracy so I am unwilling to make any very definite predictions about it. This field is so obviously shut to all but a few people that its development does not parallel that of a nation as well as the folk arts. Our best hopes for the future he among the folk arts according to my mind. Of course you can claim that I am a middle-westerner and therefore, haven't an aesthetic, mind. Nevertheless, we westerners represent the true American spirit better than you in the East since you are so much...
...undeniably another of those "popular" explanations of the depression; but it attacks the problem in considerably more adequate a manner than most of its predecessors. The point of view is far from radical; however, it is not stagnant and reactionary, but constructively conservative. The ideas are often the modern parallel of those in Burke's "Letter on the French Revolution," and as such constitute an intellectual pure decidedly needed by some of the Economic theorizers...
...call attention to the statistics in this morning's news article is sufficient if torso recognition of the Harvard Fund's value to the University. There are, however, two parallel developments which merit special attention. The first is the increasing importance attached to the office of Fund Agent in each new Senior class. In the forty-three years experience of the Yale Fund, the Class Agent has come to share equal significance with the Class Secretary as middleman between the alumnus and his college. There are plentiful indications that such an evolution is taking place at Harvard...