Word: scales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crew, and since then he has greatly improved his stroke. While in practice he keeps his form well under control, he is apt to shoot his slide a little under the stress of a race. Setting the pace for the second eight is Jack Wilson, who only tips the scale at 167. However, Wilson is strong and extra good on the low strokes. He has a little trouble still when he tries to set the pace for a good sprint...
Latest in the never-ending stream of De Mille productions, "Union Pacific"-- now at the Met--is like all his others in the grand scale of its theme and the fragmentary method of presentation. The cast of thousands, the romanticized history, the premeditated lavishness and panoramic effect--these are all present. But the story, which concerns the building of America's first transcontinental railroad, is amenable to this sort of treatment; and the screen version has been made with unusually great attention to detail. As a result, the atmosphere of frontier times--composed of the amusing savagery of the Indians...
...receive the attention they merit. There is plenty of room for reform in the concert-planing of most musicians, but even a large part of that music which is receiving attention from musicians is comparatively unknown to the average layman, and as long as we neglect the small-scale idioms were are missing some of the most delightful experiences which music has to offer...
...fact that "cheating and illegitimate tutoring" is a "large-scale commercial enterprise" only at Harvard, the Crimson held the university partly to blame. Reasons: "the worthless teaching and organization in a great number of courses . . . pedestrian lectures . . . the machine-like routine of Harvard...
...outstanding exception is furnished by the pioneering work of the Psychology A staff. From masses of charts, graphs, and experiments of all sorts, they have devised a sliding scale for marking papers that is a triumph of refined and scientific scholarship. Marks, numerical or letter, mean comparatively little; the student's rank as a member of the course is all that matters. A distribution curve based on long experience is worked out before the course starts, and by his rank each student is fitted into his rightful place on that curve. Hence the continuity of the course average is kept...