Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tutorial work in the department of History under the present system is falling short of its mark, it is not because the division is doing too little, but rather because it is attempting too much. The department has taken the dogma, perhaps from President Lowell, that concentration in a particular field has as its object a veneer of knowledge covering the entire expanse of the chosen subject. As is inevitable in such a vaulting and all-inclusive attempt, the concentrator, having only his Sophomore and Junior years in which to study for his divisionals, skims over the surface from...
...Littauer stated that in making the gift he was "carrying out a conception which has long been in my mind, but I am especially glad to be able to make the proposal at this particular time in recognition of Harvard's coming three hundredth anniversary...
Fellow 8., hardworking, quiet sort without any particular vices--uninteresting; Fellow 9., extremely pleasant and likeable fellow; Fellow 10., jovial, genial, all around person . . . most hospitable; Fellow 11., quick mind revelling in sophism . . . ardent punster...
...yesterday who simply could not understand that a new era had dawned." Last week, on being informed of his new job, Watchdog Tyrrell said: "I go to the pictures perhaps once, perhaps twice a week. . . . Why, I saw one last night-very good, too. I have no particular taste; in fact I like most of them. There is a very good film at the Empire. Claudette Colbert in She Married Her Boss." She Married Her Boss is a Columbia product, set off by a spoiled child and a drinking party in a store window. To Britons the important thing about...
...Particular emphasis will be paid to those works frequently read in class, but not often heard. Mr. Dietz plans to interpret various classicists, including Schiller, go the, Wildenbruch, and German translations from Shakespeare. He may also do "Sein doer nicht Sein, Das ist die Frage," which has had great success on the English and American stage, under Mr. Dietz' handling...