Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occasions to mention took days and days of special work. Each locality mentioned in Shakespeare's plays and poems was carefully described. A biography of each historical character was written and a sketch of the origins of each fictitious one. The Dukes of Bedford and Beaufort made particular trouble because Shakespeare referred to several without bothering to distinguish between them. Summarized were all the scholarly comments on every disputed passage, and the Baconian theory was exhaustively surveyed...
...general, know where their interest lie and if they did, their training has not been sufficient to enable them safely to give full sway to their inclinations. Required courses are justifiable here for two reasons. In the first place they may actually convey sufficient knowledge of a particular field to be of cultural value long after graduation. A Bachelor of Arts degree has long signified in its possessor at least a smattering of supposedly broadening subjects. Regardless of what one may think of this viewpoint, it represents an ideal which is not lightly to be tossed overboard...
More important still, a required course may awaken the interest of a student in what is to him a hitherto unexplored field. It is often true that men are not anxious to study subjects about which they know nothing, and in which, for that reason, they have no particular interest. Yet if forced to take the course, they may develop a fascination for the subject which will become a vital part of their four college years...
STEFAN SWEIG'S pen is guided by a versatile hand and although it has shown particular ability at thrilling narrative such as "Marie Antoinette" it is more than capable in recording scholarly research and thought. Zweig's biography of Erasmus is not a conventional biography; it is rather a perceptive study of the great thinker as a representative of sixteenth century Humanism, a cold unimpassioned word picture of a mind rather than a man. Erasmus was a thinker not a doer; it was he who laid the foundation upon which Luther based his violent departure from the past...
Developments are not so certain for the Freshman team. The squad has been cut to 20 men however, from whom the team will eventually be chosen. Other Freshmen not on the squad who show particular promise may be raised later in the season...