Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thought of as forces for good or evil in the tribal life. There is no incentive to represent these gods in terms of exterior reality as we know it. Primitive man tends to think of matter as something which can conceivably change its nature in almost any particular, and in ways that originate in the most accidental associative processes...
These same "nitwits" seem to have entirely lost sight of the fact that the ones standing to gain far more than any veteran with the passing of this particular bit of legislation known as the Independent Offices Bill are the politicians who passed it, and who, incidentally, are not making the favorable impression on all veterans that they imagine. So far as veterans are concerned, the Spanish War Veterans, the veterans' organization known as the "U. & W. V." (very few, if any of whom are Legionnaires), are far more interested in the passing of this bill than any Legionnaire...
...similar plan has already proven its worth at the University of Chicago where any student can prepare himself for comprehensive examinations in any particular course according to his own methods; both better grades and fewer failures among those electing to do so have resulted. At Harvard, with the tutorial system, the results should be still more marked, and the data of experience thereby gained should prove invaluable in effecting the ultimate transition from emphasis on course grades to tutorial work that is conceded to be the logical goal of the system...
Geology, Geography, and Biology are taken by best students, who have no particular interest in the field of science, to get off the necessary requirement. None of the elementary courses in these fields stimulates the student to think scientifically, and the laboratory periods are definitely not conducive to such thinking. Very often this is due to poor assistants who are put in charge of the laboratory sections and to the lax manner in which the courses are run. The first difficulty can be met by placing men well-qualified in their field in charge of laboratories. The second difficulty...
...sentimental and legal reasons, tiny Penzance was chosen for the first performance of The Pirates of Penzance. Cairo got the opening of Aida to christen its new opera house. For no particular reason at all, Dallas, Tex. was the scene last week of a world premiere of a play by George Bernard Shaw...