Word: restful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee is headed by Ralph Barton Perry, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy; the rest of the committee is composed of E. Merrick Dodd Jr. '10, professor of Law; Arthur M. Schlesinger, professor of History; Harlow Shapely, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy; Kenneth Murdock, professor of English; Edmund M. Morgan '02, Royall Professor of Law; and William S. Ferguson, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History...
...Homer Leland" (Roger Lapham '40) in raising enough cash to stage the World's Fair, and through it is woven an implausible little romance of the meets-loses-gets variety. The latter angle is handled in taste and in tune by Bayard Dillingham '40 and David Sheppard '41. The rest of the acting leaves much to be desired, although the cast can blame this with some justice on the book...
...professors. So vast is the mass of knowledge today that no one dares to face the whole of it; and the result is that scholars have taken refuge in specialization. More and more have they drawn into their tight little corners of specific knowledge, completely curtained off from the rest of the room...
...That these protests are to some degree valid is quite true. But the only question here is whether these disadvantages outweigh the advantage of extending the benefits of the system to the Out-of-Housers. Is it fair to make some three hundred men go without the privileges the rest of the college enjoys for the sake of an abstract principle...
...maharaja (compared with approximately one pound in 1,600 of British revenue to King George VI). And the taxpayer gets almost nothing for his money. In one state which charges taxes of $5.50 per head, 10? per head is spent on education, 8? on public health. Much of the rest goes to keep the maharaja well supplied with pearls, virgins, elephants and other luxuries. If taxation fails, there are different ways of raising money-one prince is said to have sold his 300 stepmothers for 30 rupees apiece...