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Thus it seemed particularly appropriate to find Critic Cortissoz beginning this week with a lecture on "Technique" at the Metropolitan. For although the Metropolitan courteously admits to its rostra lecturers who flay its conservative policies, including even vitriolic Critic Walter Pach (TIME. Dec. 17, 1928), it must happily welcome so able a champion as Critic Cortissoz...
...western trip and a southern trip have also been announced for the debating team. The former will come in the early spring and will be for the purpose of meeting western universities on the rostra. The schedule for this has not yet ben decided on, but will probably include the University of Michigan and the University of Chicago. The plans for the southern trip, which will take place later in the spring, probably in April, are as yet in an undeveloped state...
...parallel one. It has always been assumed that the tutor was to contribute something to the education of the student which he could not obtain from the work which he did in courses. To establish a graded system of promotion from the ranks of tutors to the rostra of lecture balls would destroy this primary purpose of the system. It would substitute for the better type of tutor, at present to be found in the History, Government and Economics Departments and in lesser numbers among the other departments, men of the calibre of instructors...
Kudos Another week of Commencements was spent by the colleges (TIME,June 21) and distinguished citizens from all walks of life were called to many rostra to be honored. It was the centenary of railroading in the U. S., so several road presidents entered the academic scene. Editors and publishers were saluted, their services having lately been deemed important amid modern complexities. Kudos conferred during the week...
...high priest of these two temples, is a genial, bumbling man with a blue twinkle in his eye, a carefree mustache and a knobbly walking stick. He is Dr. Harry F. Covington, Professor of Public Speaking and Debating, whose classes meet before the temple rostra. Few Princeton graduates could tell you which temple is the home of the American Whig and which of the Cliosophical Society, but any Princeton man could single out from 10,000 public speaking professors, the memorable face and figure of Professor Harry F. Covington...