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...student to a tutoring school in nine-tenths of the cases is not primarily a last-minute effort to get a course into his head; it is rather the desperate attempt of the average student to find some order in the chaos which a series of disorganized and pedestrian lectures leaves him. I can speak only with authority as to my own experience in the English Department in the years 1933-37. It was significant that in the well-taught courses--for example, those of Professors Kittredge, Greenough, and Murray--virtually no student had any need or desire for tutoring...
...desperate attempt of the average student to find some order in the chaos which a series of disorganized and pedestrian lectures leaves him" which drives a student to tutoring schools, according to one letter. A father bemoans the fact that a professor refused his Freshman son needed aid, forcing him to a tutoring school. Two Freshmen accuse the University of ignoring the problem which first year men meet in organizing their work and in facing an entirely new system. Others lambaste excessive and dull reading lists...
Most memorable passage in an otherwise pedestrian speech: "The only way we are going to stop spending is to stop paying out money, and the surest way of preventing the paying out of money is not to appropriate the money to be paid...
...followers opened fire and before the Army forces could machine gun them into submission three policemen, a pedestrian and four rebels were killed, nearly a dozen wounded. Strong Man Benavides and his Ministers called off their holiday, rushed back to Lima in time to supervise the disposition of the bodies...
Thus encouraged to be nifty, display men have taxed their wits to captivate the eye-and the other senses-of a hypothetical pedestrian passing with his head down and his own worries in an interval of about ten seconds. On Fifth Avenue this has led to glamor plus novelty. Most noticeable evidence: a change in manikins from a shiny waxwork sisterhood with open-eyed little smiles to papier-máché, wire mesh or carven effigies of the dangling, mask-faced glamor girl...