Word: regards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home now & then in the infrequent intervals of his long, confident barnstorming career in pursuit of the champion. By the time his hard-boiled-ego philosophy takes the count in a riproaring, ten-round climax (the film's only fight scene), he has squandered his wife's regard, has never won his son's. In line with proved cinema practice, however, mother and son rally around after pop has had his ears pinned back, seem resigned to living happily with him ever after...
...will readily see, the article has a salient weakness. It implies a change in himself, rather than in the type of student who is arbitrarily admitted by the University. The authors have chosen to regard the student body as static, and the presence of Dorchester men in Phi Beta Kappa as a token of what Marx hath wrought...
Among the diseases traced to viruses are infantile paralysis, yellow fever, influenza, small pox, measles, palltacosis, encephalitis, distemper, and rabics. Medical scientists regard the study of viruses as ranking in importance with that of bacteriology, and the rapid development of knowledge in this field since 1920 as one of the most brilliant advances in the history of medical research...
...regard to the quality of Harvard teaching, the editorial states, "Harvard teachers--brilliant as they may be in research, letter writing, New Deal committee work, etc.--just don't seem to know much about teaching. Bliss Perry taught at Harvard; but few men have done so since then...
Sargent claimed the large number of Prep school tutees was due largely to personal wealth. "A great many have no interest in getting a college education but go through the four years just to please their parents, who regard college in the same light as a finishing school," he says...