Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delicate, extremely intricate. Producing, transporting, marketing, financing, all require a higher skill, a more intelligent organization, than under a less developed, less prosperous people. . The entire life of the nation, all its economic activities, have become so interrelated that maladjustment in any one of them is sufficient to cause serious disarrangement in all the rest...
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Pathe has observed that the true market for the serious educational picture is not in what Roxy has called the "cathedral of the movies", where the arrival of the travelogue is the signal for a general exodus, but rather in the high school scientific course and the small college whose endowment does not permit sizeable expenditures on the more specialized studies. Under the new plan it will be possible for students at a college which gives no courses in anthropology to study the subject in about the fashion that an undergraduate here does. The gap between high school and college...
American participation in Oxford sports, which has hitherto been frequent and considerable, is threateued with serious curtallment by the new age-limit rule which came into force with the opening of the present term, according to a statement from the Committee on the Rhodes Scholarship Fund at Oxford...
...limited experience both as student and teacher in other educational Institutions outside our own leads me to the suspicion that many of our smaller colleges have ceased to do any serious work in Greek, and some of the universities perforce by reason of the poor preparation of their students have degenerated into one sort or other of parlor-Greek. It is refreshing to me to be at Harvard once again, where for a student of Greek a thorough knowledge of the language is not an otiose desirability, but a necessity. Very sincerely yours, Arthur M. Young...