Word: self
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unfortunately the Saturday session of the Conference instead of being the more popular and practical was a sad commentary on the Conference's powers of self-advertisement. Possibly next year, and there will have to be "a next year" if the conference idea is to go on, the leaders will see to it that the final group meeting either is guided by the faculty panel experts and not by student rapporteurs or will become merely a series of brief comparative reports and not a mass-meeting of pressure groups and lobby-lovers. This change would make for a novel experiment...
...situation amounts to his: Harvard, proudest school in the land, pretending to preeminence in American education, is fast turning rotten inside. Her academic standards, supposedly peers of any to be found, are becoming empty and sham. The attendance of her students at Square tutoring schools is not only intellectual self-defilement; if this were true the whole business could be easily dismissed with some smug generalization about students hurting only themselves. It is not only a force which cramps the exercise of her liberal educational doctrine, freedom of the student, unlimited cuts, non-recording of attendance, and which will force...
Since developing from a painfully shy, homely gosling and an inhibited, inferior-feeling wife and daughter-in-law, into a self-confident swan of a woman with the nation for her pond, she has learned to sail through life with serenity. In the rarefied top stratum of official existence, where one can see anything, learn anything, go anywhere, get almost anything done, she wastes no chance to compensate for long years of being (by her own account) a cloistered nobody...
...that time, the Basque was known by the Latinized name of Ignatius. Of this austere, astute, self-styled "captain" in Christ's army, many pious biographies have been written. Published this week is Soldier of the Church,* first attempt to bring Ignatius Loyola to life for ordinary readers. Its author, Ludwig Marcuse, is a German-Jewish exile, biographer of Heine and Strindberg. His viewpoint: a middle course between Catholic orthodoxy and non-Catholic skepticism...
...California, hounded by sheriffs and labor contractors, exploited, haunted by starvation, they spend one pleasant period in a Government camp, a self-governing oasis unloved by big absentee growers. Before the season is out, Rose of Sharon's young husband has deserted, her baby is born dead in a filthy tent, Tom is in hiding for killing a vigilante. But Ma Joad says: "We ain't gonna die out. People is goin' on-changin' a little, maybe, but goin' right...