Word: references
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...full realization of the Harkness Plan, of course, has not yet been achieved, but the "Exonian" feels qualified to comment justly on one phase that has been realized. We refer to the reduction of the size of classroom sections and the introduction of the conference plan. Limited classes have served to facilitate the instruction of the laggard and at the same time to stimulate the desire of the able. Questions can now be discussed more fully and the student is called upon to fall back on his own individual mentality more than ever before. In general, it can be said...
Permit me to correct a partially incorrect statement in TIME, Nov. 16. On p. 12, "The ist Ohio," you refer to Congressman-elect John B. Hollister, as "a Harvardman...
...romanticized piece of history for light reading, then, M. Delayen may have succeeded, but beyond this point very little is to be said. Throughout the book there are footnotes which, when looked up in the back, refer to ancient authors and authorities for his statements. As references they are completely impossible because of the vague character of most of them. For example, one reference says, "of, Zenophon, Aristophanes, Thueydides, Demosthenes, etc." This would seem to be an attempt to make a novel look like a really critical and scholarly piece of work, which it certainly is not. Furthermore, the text...
...would not refer to this item, were it not that my entirely unselfish desire to help a most worthy international good-will cause was indirectly responsible for the insertion of the original advertisement, the exact wording of which I did not see until after it was printed. The philanthropic Honorary Secretary of that worthy cause had suggested to me that much help for its needed funds could be obtained if I would deliver some public addresses in its favor. I replied that, while I could not appropriately do that, I would gladly contribute the proceeds of honorariums which might...
...plague menaces-indeed already afflicts-a great portion of the flock intrusted to our care, striking more clearly the weaker though the more strongly loved -the children; the humble and those with less money-the workers and the proletariat. We refer to the grave pecuniary embarrassment, the financial crisis which ... is bringing unemployment to every land. . . . Now Winter approaches and with it the long succession of suffering and privation which that season brings, especially to the poor and to the helpless young. Most serious of all, however, is that steady aggravation of the plague of unemployment to which we have...