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...social sciences need "laboratory work" of the same kind. Tutorial and written papers are both steps in the right direction. Most important of all is that the teachers of the social sciences realize that their main object is not to present their field to the student on a platter for him to absorb but rather to teach the student how to learn and guide him in his study...
...appropriates $10,000 annually toward the support of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, a "parliament of man" founded 51 years ago to keep the world's legislative bodies informed about each other. Another $10,000 from Congress provides one of the juiciest bits of junket on the Washington political platter: an annual trip for a delegation to the union's meeting (last year at The Hague, this year at Oslo). A supposedly non-partisan caucus of the whole Congress picks the head of the delegation, who then, by hallowed custom, dishes out the junket to his party mates...
...cause was a new opera which had just been given its Metropolitan premiere. In the opera a necrophilic heroine disrobed before her gloating, drunken stepfather, demanding as the price of her strip tease the head of an imprisoned prophet. To the severed head, duly served up on a platter, she made more or less violent love. The plot was Oscar Wilde's, but the opera's composer had italicized its gruesomeness with uncanny naturalism. For sheer horror nothing like it had ever been witnessed on the austere Metropolitan's stage. When the performance was over, pale, gibbering...
...French press and French journalists are tossed out where they will do the most good, by the French Government and its constituent parties. When moderates ran France, the leftwing press suffered lean days. Since 1936, roles have been reversed. The Popular Front press has licked the subsidy platter clean. The Left & Right papers have raised their price per copy three times in a year, but after nearly two years on a bread & water diet most of the conservative dailies are in the last stages of anemia...
...Camden, Del., Farmer James Harris lost the silver platter he won as first prize in the pie-baking contest of the Peninsula Horticultural Society when Mrs. Hynson Cohee sent word to the contest committee that she had sold Harris the pie for 30?, and that she wanted her pie tin back...