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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discouraging to slaving students, especially in the larger halls, to see a little knot of proctors standing in a corner of the room after the books have been given out rehearsing together their last week-end on the North Shore or trip to Revere for the roller-coaster. This sort of proctorial whispering, even though it may be a dull job to loaf about for three hours watching others pour out their heart's blood, is clearly a breach of trust. Memorial Hall, where it is possible to congregate beside the blackboards at the entrance, has been particularly complained...
...trust after they had picked Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant, the lionhearted, 5 ft. 4 in. Atlanta tumblebug, as No. 2 U. S. singles player. But all doubts evaporated when, as so often happens in sport, what had promised to be a titanic struggle turned out to be nothing of the sort...
Rabbis. Two hundred members of the world's largest rabbinical assembly, the Central Conference of American Rabbis (Reform Jews), also met last week in Columbus, exchanged greetings with the Presbyterians. Rabbi Samuel Marcus Gup told the Christians: "The world needs just this sort of demonstration in which you and we are taking part today...
...fore in his characters' speeches, which are always from the heart. Says Rosamund: "One has such a horror of being either priggish or sentimental. They call me sentimental in my books, but I'm not really." Says Clive: "Me! Oh, I'm just a rather affectionate sort of ass." Author Deeping can be alarmingly severe with people he doesn't like, such as Norah, Rosamund's older sister: "Sallow and strenuous and masterful, given to sudden splurges of coarse laughter, and concealing beneath her thick white skin surges of strongly scented sex." But wistfulness predominates...
...good introductory course for beginners is now offered in Psychology A, providing the same sort of background to the field as History 1 and Philosophy A do for theirs. This course and Psychology 5, 24, and 16 are recommended not only as among the best to take but as essential for divisionals. 21, a or b, or 22b are also suggested as good for this purpose...