Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there were a nucleus of discussion at the meetings, instead of desultory questions or a third lecture by the section man, actuality might approach potential. One method of stimulating discussion might be effected by requiring concise, one-page papers throughout the term on questions suggested by the week's readings. One of the term's longer papers might be dropped and a requirement of six to eight short expositions substituted. Students could hand these in on weeks when they chose. Exercises like this would eliminate the need for the puerile quizzes used by section men solely for the purpose...
...collection of his Voice pieces came out a few years ago, entitled Sick, Sick, Sick, and now Passinonella and Other Stories, a collection of four longer cartoon features, is also among us. They can be read, or rather looked through, in about a half hour apiece, and this is pretty quick considering that Passionella retails for $1.75 in paperback. But there is not much else to do except to plunk down even these enormous sums, unless you can borrow, steal, or arrange to be given the books, because Mr. Feiffer is a deft, knowledgeable and brilliantly witty cartoonist, satirist...
Percussion replaced the dying Radcliffe News in October and managed to arouse enough student support during the first two months to secure a circulation of over 400 subscribers. The format was changed to include more features in an effort to avoid competition with the CRIMSON, which is read by 80 to 90 per cent of 'Cliffies, according to Miss Webster...
...Editor Carroll Streeter's monthly, 82-year-old Farm Journal follow that formula-telling down-to-earth stories in down-to-earth prose-that it has achieved an audience concentration unmatched by any other major specialized magazine; with a circulation of 3,119,366, the Farm Journal is read by fully half the nation's farmers...
Sixth Sense. More than 80 novels, plays and volumes of short stories have made Maugham one of the most widely read writers in the world-and one of the richest. He makes no bones about money and the pleasures it buys: a villa on the Riviera, good cigars, expensive paintings, luxurious travel. As he once put it: "I had no intention of living on a crust in a garret if I could help it. I had found out that money was like a sixth sense without which you could not make the most of the other five." Maugham...