Word: reale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost equally bad are the mass reviews upon which the businesses of Wolff and Parker-Cramer are based. As a means to real education, these are a farce. They consist, for the most part, in skillful spotting of examinations and cramming of answers. Students emerge merely with high-lights of information--which is necessarily superficial, which they do not understand, which they have not assimilated. The most important part of study, organization of the material, is completely absent. Thus the essence of education-mastery in the methodology of thought--is taken out. Students do not think; their thinking is done...
Boston gets a real break with Alec Templeton coming to Symphony Hall tonight to play one of his justly famous piano concerts. Templeton, born an Englishman and blind from birth, is a true artist both in the field of classics and that of musical satire. If you have ever heard him play Chopin and then go on to imitate "an afternoon in a conservatory" with sundry whiskey basses, off-key Wagnerian sopranos, and amazing musical parodies from the piano, you will recognize what unusual talent the man possesses...
...Andy Coakley has a pretty fair ball club in New York this year representing the Blue of Columbia University, but the pitching is woefully weak and will have to be spread over the schedule very sparingly. And even the most optimistic observer would not rate the Lions as a real swash-buckling crew of sluggers, needing only fair twirling to win games...
Pill, footballer Radvillas, and prize Sophomore George Johnson will probably be the three outer garden starters, but, all in all the Lions just haven't got the stuff to be a real contender...
...Council to pass a resolution requiring Mayor Lyons to appoint a citizens' committee to confer with University Hall. And it was the same McNamara who on Tuesday night reopened the question when he traced for the Council the tripling of Harvard's tax-exempt real estate value since...