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Word: saliently (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...article printed elsewhere in today's CRIMSON on the subject of Naval and Military Science, reveals the numerous attractions that are dangled before the eyes of prospective students to induce them to enroll in these courses. One of the most salient points brought out in that comment is the method by which these courses were awarded college credit. During the war so many students were enrolled in Military Science and so much of their time was occupied in this subject that it was absolutely necessary to give academic credit so that the course requirements for a degree could be fulfilled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHITE ELEPHANTS | 11/21/1930 | See Source »

Henry Killam Murphy is to give a lecture entitled "Chinese Architecture, with an analysis of its salient features, both structural and decorative and examples of its application in working drawings in modern buildings. The lecture is conducted under the auspices of the School of Architecture and will be delivered in the large lecture room in Robinson Hall on Tuesday November 18 it is open to the public...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lecture on Chinese Architecture | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

...minute test is given, not to determine the amount of knowledge gleaned from the week's reading, but to ascertain merely if the student has done the assignment. Beyond the fact that this procedure is contrary to all pedagogical theory, it is absolutely impossible to convey any of the salient points of 150 pages of Plato to an instructor by means of a five minute scrawl. These meetings were primarily organized to solve any difficulties that the student might have, but they have been reduced to infinite and fruitless arguments on the number of ultimate realities that exist or other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOW FIRM A FOUNDATION | 10/21/1930 | See Source »

...average citizen may well thank God and the Legal Aid Society when he finds himself in difficulties, but under ordinary circumstances the most salient inadequacies in the field of law are not concerned with any lack of legal talent, or to be more accurate, advice. At the present rate of progress, mortal combat stands a far better chance of becoming the popular method of setting disputes than does court procedure What person in his right mind wants to wait some three years in order to carry a grievance before a magistrate who has bought his appointment only to be told...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS | 10/1/1930 | See Source »

...English channel, a faint sound pitched awesomely deep. "That, gentlemen," said the Prime Minister, "was Hill No. 60. Within a few minutes I think we shall have it." Captured twice by Germans, thrice by Britons, famed Hill No. 60, scene of the bitterest fighting in the Ypres Salient, was sapped and mined before the last successful British attack, blown up on April 17, 1915 by one of the most titanic explosions ever loosed by man in war. Last week British Brewer John J. Calder, who bought Hill No. 60 in 1920 for patriotic reasons, announced that he had finally perfected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: No. 60, Saviors, Sharks | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

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