Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Much verbiage has been expended in connection with the problems that beset the average adolescent in the course of that nebulous period known as the "transition from school to college." For some, the adjustments that are necessary during the freshman year present no difficulties; but for the majority the realization that an entirely new set of values has to be accepted, a new set of social relationships successfully encountered, demands a disproportionate amount of concentration and effort. At Harvard there are a number of individuals, or groups of them, that, working generally behind the scenes, provide help and advice...
...Deans in charge of Freshmen do invaluable work. And in the tutoring schools on the square, and even in some of the stores, are people whose advice helps many a harassed youth find himself. However, this delicate matter of helping young men through a difficult period should properly be left in the hand of the college of which the young men are members. The adviser system, in spite of attempts to improve it, is still a ghastly failure. With this in view, Phillips Brooks House is nurturing in the collective mind of its undergraduate and graduate boards an idea which...
...will always remain an interesting document, because of its intense individuality in an age when conventionality was the rule and never the exception. To appreciate the greatness of Charlotte Bronie's achievement, it is necessary to realize what audacity she displayed in the face of the stern early Victorian period. She shocked her contemporaries by revealing a heroine consumed with passion and broke the traditional theory that woman could only be the loved and not the lover. Though the situation used in the novel had been used many times before, the theme was radical. The former shows a young woman...
Artist Copley continued to ship pictures to London where they won great praise from Sir Joshua Reynolds and his group, but Copley did not move to London until 1774. In London his work lost the crude color and simple, direct line of his colonial period. On the other hand, Copley was able to indulge to the full his fondness for painting satins, velvets, rich laces. He began to compose grandiloquent historical scenes like The Siege of Gibraltar, The Death of Lord Chatham...
...match the older chains if it wants to. Without all of the new station alignments reflecting in its income, M. B. S. reported gross program billings of $1,794,000 for the first eleven months of 1936 as compared with $1,117,000 for the same period last year, a 60% increase. Columbia's program revenues for the same period were $20,788,000, comparing with $15,751,000, a 32% increase. N. B. C. reported an eleven-month figure of $30,935,000 for 1936, comparing with $28,255,000 last year, a 9% rise...