Word: salient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...more original scent. To enable Harvard to regain its illusory objective of a really "liberal" education, the report recommends the establishment of five introductory courses covering the major areas of knowledge--two each for the natural sciences and humanities and one for the social sciences. The salient point of such courses is that, following what seems to be the Hutchins philosophy of education, they would be deigned to cut across departmental boundaries. This procedure is generally stimulating to both teacher and pupil; and it is unquestionably an excellent medium for providing that really liberal education which the Council has concluded...
...Salient fact about Germany then and now remains that she has few natural resources except her people. In important raw materials Germany has an exportable surplus of only two things: coal and chemicals. With a few industries (such as the electrical and dyestuff industries) the Germans have worked wonders. But ever since Germany ceased after 1871 to be a collection of medieval agrarian principalities she has had to import wool, cotton, rubber, metals, wood, oil and foodstuffs from beyond her territory...
...University thinks there is a weakness in its system which leads to tutoring, it is quite right. But if it regards liberal study rules as the proper salient to be counter-attacked, it is equally wrong. There has been one reaction predominant in the college--as disclosed in letters to the Crimson and as voiced in discussion roundabout--since the publication of Tuesday's editorial. This is the attitude that, while tutoring schools are indeed vicious and overgrown, there is a reason for their existence. This reason is the worthless teaching and organization in a great number of courses...
...Mississippi State College for Women lonely Freshmen these days are forced by upperclassmen to play a game combining the salient characteristics of "post office" and "dear lonely heart" which has resulted in a flood of fan mail addressed Harvard men, sight unseen...