Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most of the courses require daily work, but as a pleasant consequence little review is required for exams. Most of the concentrators feel that the regular work in colege has a beneficial effect in work after graduation. Long asisgnments, however, with the exception of some laboratory reports, are both rare and unnecessary...
Browsing at high pressure continues as the typification of the field. The Divisionals are deemed exceptionally severe, with courses 10, 21, 30, 40, 50 and 52 considered as key. The broad scope of the field made many of the concentrators agree that the most pleasant way to cover the field was through tutorial guidance, but such men declared that a coordination tutor, not a laissez-faire man, was essential for this mode of study. Of these tutors Munn was recommended as a great individual teacher, and Steel was declared one of the best tutors in the field. Chandled and Sedgwick...
...comprehensive and Buck's lectures good. With Professor Morison's personality History 60 is a delight for the American specialist; last year Nettels was very good. History 62a gives an economic approach to America. The most important course to the American concentrator is 63; although his humor is pleasant. Professor Schlesinger's lectures are on the whole dull. Most of the reading, especially the literary aspect, is antiquated and superficial; the marking of hour exams is felt to be unfair because too much material is wanted in a small amount of time. Complete reorganization, perhaps on a topical rather than...
...Town, Shadow and Substance, On Borrowed Time) as well as in some lesser fry. But all these plays, warmed by humor or pricked by wit, were far removed from the solemn fudge of the Servant in the House era, made neither God nor Death embarrassing. On Borrowed Time, though pleasant, was very likely the most overrated play of the season. But Our Town (the Pulitzer Prize play), despite a third act which got beyond its depth, squeezed so much honest feeling, poetry and humor into its first two acts as to be, if not technically the season's best...
Wilfred John Funk, son of Founder Funk and onetime Literary Digest editor: "It is a very pleasant thing to have an old and honored magazine go into new and honored hands...