Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Either this or Latin 3 is required for honors. Plate and Aristotle and a survey of Greek Philosophy from Thales to Aristotle are handled in Greek 8. In spite of the statement in the University's Course Register, little attention is paid to the subject matter of the authors read, and the recommendation was made that it should be given to the Philosophy Department. The course is not difficult, more material could be covered, and Professor Greene was characterized as having a fine voice and a remarkable absorption of second-hand ideas...
...some cases offer just as much. What a student gains is in the end up to himself and his tutor. Undoubtedly more time is spent with one's tutor, both as Sophomore and Junior, than in any other non-scientific field. The concentrator should be prepared to read much and read it thoroughly, as well as to study ideas in addition to facts. Survey courses like History 1, English 1, and French 6 (for the French field), are recommended for prospective concentrators to take as Freshmen...
...import today, a good deal of myth for the credulous and some pornography not current. . . . But Hutchins may not be unredeemable, if he could only get away from his medievalists, if [Philosopher Mortimer J.] Adler could be sent off on a sabbatical, if Hutchins could get time to read some good modern books, he might come out right side up, face forward. He is a better man, and a more serious menace, than is here revealed...
Died. Anton Lang, 63, Bavarian potter who three times (1900, 1910, 1922) played the role of the Christus in the Oberammergau Passion Play; after an operation for a stomach ailment; in Munich. Softspoken, spade-whiskered Anton Lang first appeared in the Passion Play in 1878, read the prologue in 1930 and 1934, was succeeded in his chief part by Alois Lang, a woodcarver...
Everybody has wondered what would happen if people could read each other's minds. In The Thought-Reading Machine amiable, yea-saying André Maurois gives them the power, finds people's secret thoughts are not so bad. Professor Dumoulin was lecturing at a U. S. university when a colleague handed him what looked like a rolled-up copy of FORTUNE, said it was an invention for recording secret thoughts. Dumoulin secretly tried it on his wife, unearthed a startling hodgepodge of sentimental memories of an early lover, resentment against himself. But when he taxed her about...