Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more original scent. To enable Harvard to regain its illusory objective of a really "liberal" education, the report recommends the establishment of five introductory courses covering the major areas of knowledge--two each for the natural sciences and humanities and one for the social sciences. The salient point of such courses is that, following what seems to be the Hutchins philosophy of education, they would be deigned to cut across departmental boundaries. This procedure is generally stimulating to both teacher and pupil; and it is unquestionably an excellent medium for providing that really liberal education which the Council has concluded...
Formerly a tutor under "Widow" Nolan, Sargent expressed interest in the CRIMSON'S camgaign, offering a four-point program for the University. Lecture notes should be changed every ten years, a modern type of examination should be given, examinations should be set and graded by someone other than the professor in charge of the course, and short reviews should be given prior to examinations...
...route past battlefields, through cobblestoned alleys and over bedecked streets to the Provincial House of Parliament. Over the route Quebec's 140,000 inhabitants stretched thinly but politely, regarding the King curiously, but whispering of the Queen: "Qu'elle est charmante?" "Qu'elle est chic!" In point of fact, the Queen, who has never ranked among Europe's ten best dressed women had never looked smarter. U. S. fashion experts, noting her clothes from news photographs, were pleasantly surprised at the Queen's style...
...White Paper as bland as Lord Runciman's apologia for the Czecho-Slovakia debacle, chose to interpret this to mean that the Jews should have about as much "homeland" as they have now achieved in Palestine, but that they should not be allowed to expand to a point of depriving the Arabs of their majority control in politics and land ownership. Jews fumed and charged that once more Great Britain had expediently bowed to the threats of force, the desire to keep Arab friendship useful in case of a Mediterranean showdown...
Economist Hansen went on to point out that from 1922 to 1928 the U. S. population increased 9.1%; from 1930 to 1936 only 4.3%. Contracting with it, all private construction has fallen from a $9 billion annual business to $4 billions. If the New Deal chooses to take Mr. Hansen's tip, a drive for capital spending may take the form of housing...