Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conferences with men selected by their respective departments it has been our invariable experience to find students open-minded and quite willing to give frank opinions-of anyone in their fields. There is no reason to believe that men selected by their departments should be especially favorable toward their particular faculty, or that the faculty should choose its delegates with any sinister ulterior motive of gaining undeserved good will. Such conceptions hearken back to grade school days of "teacher's pets" and petty favoritism. The number of instructors in a single department is far too large to cull effectively those...
...life was despaired of in March 1935, during an attack of bronchitis. From the White House he was moved to the Naval Hospital where he astounded his doctors by remaining alive. On the night of last week's Gridiron dinner he had gone to sleep and, for no particular reason, his tired heart stopped beating...
GEORGE ELIOT-Blanche Colton Williams-Macmillan ($4). The product of years of careful research, this biography treats every aspect of the great feminist's life and works. Author Williams devotes particular attention to George Eliot's life with Lewes, explaining much of her writing in terms of that relationship which so shocked the Victorian world. Although some of the detail is dull, the book as a whole is written with charm and perception, should be the last word on George Eliot for some time to come...
...Gothie architecture is done especially well, with a keen eye for details, and the scroll motif on the archway is of particular interest because it shows that the Renaissance influence was beginning of penetrate into France...
...these fell to Bach, and it is just in the insertion of these choral strophes that the full depth of Bach's poetic sense is revealed. It would be impossible to find, in the whole of the hymns of the Christian church, a verse better fitted to its particular purpose than the one Bach has selected...