Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...basic fault lies in the niggardly provision for but two assistants to examine over one hundred fifty men. This task in itself is overwhelming and naturally thankless, and its very enormity precludes any opportunity for personal attention, or the chance to spend either more or less time with certain students. With the outlook for an increased budget for next year extremely slim, the obvious solution is a return to the tried and tested system of hour examinations. These undoubtedly have their faults, but compared to the abject failure which the present system of "personal contact" has proven in History...
...sleep. At 5, he directed a choir of his playmates. When Alec was 12, his father sold his interest in the farm, moved to London, enrolled his son in the Royal Academy. Father Templeton got himself elected to the London County Council but found it unnecessary to spend any money after his son's first term. Thereafter Alec earned his way with scholarships. At 16, he bested 20,000 pianists in a contest sponsored by the London Daily Express. Alec Templeton won a grand piano, learning the contest piece as he has learned all his large repertoire, by hearing...
...calibre of the tutors and the importance of tutorial being what it is, a course reduction should be given in this field for an A.B. degree. If honor students were to spend with their tutors the time so gained, the ground could be covered more rapidly, and the emphasis placed on the points which are particularly important to the field. There is not time for students to cover these points in courses. It would take time to introduce this innovation, and two or more tutors would have to be added; but as a progressive move it would be sound...
...have much unofficial say-so as to who gets what. Applicants may do even better by knowing a modest, soft-voiced scholar named Henry Allen Moe, who is Secretary of the Guggenheim Foundation, has in twelve years threaded his way through a round 10,000 applications. Secretary Moe spends much time digging out prospective Fellows. A few have been so shy that he "had to drag them in by the heels." When Secretary Moe lights on a likely applicant, he interviews him, tries to find out how much Guggenheim money he will need, what he wants to do with...
...have used the original metre and form, invites comparison by printing Baudelaire's version on the opposite page. In some cases she thinks they have been able to give the literal equivalent. Some might think it queer that so ladylike a poet as Edna St. Vincent Millay should spend four months with such a tortured satanist as Charles Baudelaire. With a stamp of her foot she defies the lifted eyebrows: "It is impossible to make a good translation of a poet of whom one disapproves...