Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...task for a mental colossus as long as scholarship and instruction retain their Slamese relationship. Nor do standard curricula always assist toward the desired end. They sometimes spring from separate departments and emmesh the student, without being subject to correlation by a whole faculty...
...American college men care to consider. Always excepting the small minority who find endless resources with in themselves, college men would be at a loss without companions in their studies. A room-mate is always accessible when one wishes money, recreation, or that more subtle shade of human relationship which goes by the name of friendship...
...DANCER'S CAT?C. A. Nicholson?Bobbs-Merrill ($2). An ostentatiously esoteric tale, the core of which may or may not be the weird relationship between a young Russian dancer, Lydie Manuiloff, and her Siamese cat, Pasha. Besides this problem in comparative psychiatry, there is a remarkably fine exposition of British and Russian reticences in conflict. Lydie and her English friends are all truth-tellers, but all carry the suppressions of their cultures. Lydie understands, is tolerant of their kind of truth. Her kind hurts them. In addition she is suspected of poisoning her fiance with fish that was actually...
...Walter Six, Instructor in German, was appointed to make a study of Heinrich von Kleist, aiming at a literary delimitation of Kleist, the establishment of his relationship to his literary contemporaries and predecessors, and of his place in German literary history...
...attempts at meta-physical and ethical understanding are interestingly delineated, would not in any sense be a superficial survey of an infinity of half demonstrated realities. Rather would it be an expression of the philosophical attitude toward modern life, an appreciation of history, science and literature in their inter-relationship as parts in the philosophical whole. Thus there would be established a necessary foundation for specialized work as well as an inspiration to individual thinking, only half-heartedly supplied by the present introductory course in philosophy...