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...tutorial situation, as well, is discouraging. Understaffing and the pressure of lecture duties have led to a partial breakdown of the system. The result is, of course, that the Sociology concentrator is left with lecturing as the staple of his educational diet...
...times for simplicity and integration, President Conant intends to shake the departmental trees until many of the vestigial courses fall out. Not only will courses be reduced in number, but the material taught within them will be condensed. This admittance of the value of concentrated effort should result in such long-needed reforms as the reorganization of concentration in the field of history. The dangers of over-departmentalization are as old as they are poignant, but President Conant's allusion to the strings attached by budgetary allocations does much to clarify the situation...
...Hollywood is forced to grind out pictures in such a furious frenzy. Clearly there is no time to write the small talk in advance, and the poor scared actors and actresses have to make it up with the formidable cameras staring then down. The result is that one intuitively feels confident of having done slightly better at that last dance where he issued more yawns than words, and couldn't for the life of him remember who his partner...
Specific questions under the four general headings of Scholarship, Character, Outside Activities, and Financial Need, would result in a critical estimate of the candidate's tutorial work, and useful comments on his intellectual qualities; it would be possible to ascertain more fully the extent of his participation in extra-curricular activities, and the effect of this on his work. Tutors are in a position to supply valuable information in regard to a student's financial status,--what efforts he is making to earn his way, and whether a scholarship would result in more time for study...
...that they were protecting the people against a huge impending danger. From now on teachers in Massachusetts must swear allegiance to the prevailing character of the American government and hush their thoughts on the values or the facts of all other types. Compulsory oaths of this sort are the result of an unnatural, brooding resentment among the masses against the intellectuals, who are supposedly toying with dangerous ideals...