Word: procession
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard is no exception. President Eliot may reform, concentration may battle distribution, General Education may arise from an academic whirlpool--but for the student, learning remains a process of absorption for 16 or fewer weeks and disgorging of knowledge for three hours at the conclusion of said process...
...marking is certain to become come mechanical and is also likely to be affected by errors of carelessness from tine to time. Anyone who has found on obvious mistake in the marking of his bluebook and has attempted to have the course grade changed knows what an impressibly involved process that is--how everyone from the instructor to the department had to the entire faculty must approve a change once the grades...
...unusual for an undergraduate even to see his bluebook once the examination is over. Although it seems apparent that if examinations make any pretense at being on educational process they should he returned to the students for review, few courses have gone to the trouble of making their examination readily available after being corrected...
This play attempts to look at the situation from the point of view of the Jew, to discover his motivations, his thoughts, his conflicts. In the process it has managed to give the figure of Shylock a genuine dignity and impressiveness which, at least to this reviewer, the character in Shakespeare's play seems to lack whether sentimentally or straight forwardly played. In this version the story was heavily weighted and sometimes as illogical as Shakespeare, in particular the handling of the escape of Jessica from the ghetto...
...although it treats the same subject a large part of the time, with the same philosophy, it does not restrict itself to the specific point of the Man of Moral Passion being caught by the life force. "You Never Can Tell" gets off some heavy fire at the actual process of courtship that the later masterpiece disregards, and it also expresses some wise sentiments about the out-of-dateness of last year's radicalism...