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...Step Lively," eighty-seventh annual production of the Hasty Pudding, is, from the standpoint of its musical strength, probably as fine as anything this ancient organization has ever exhibited before rows of happy patronesses. E. E. Stowell '34 and R. B. Moore '35 have the distinction of being amateur composers who have produced a score that not only sounds like something but has real swing and force to it. Shrewdly the directors of the production have realized this fact and little else in the way of plot, dialogue, or special acts has been attempted. Apparently any such additions would simply...
Concentration in Sociology gives one the opportunity of selecting courses in a broader range of related departments than does concentration in any other field. From the standpoint of the prospective concentrator, especially if he be somewhat timid and doubtful about the finality of his decision, this relative freedom to browse in sundry delectable fields of his own choice is a strong practical advantage. Most of the Older departments, like English, Classics, Mathematics, Music, the Natural Sciences, Fine Arts--are more thoroughly self-contained than the younger Social Sciences. History and, Anthropology, Government and Economics, Psychology and Literature, Philosophy and History...
Such special social sciences are one of them much more than 100 years old, and Sociology depends upon them for many of its data. Although Confucius, Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, Ibn-Khaldun, Macchiavelli, Montesquieu, and many other great thinkers had written on man and society from a general standpoint, it was not until about the time the French Revolution stirred European civilization to its roots that thinkers began to study various special aspects of human social relations. One group began to specialize on the development of our great social institutions like the State and the Church; another group concentrated...
...second group are those who study physics from all engineering standpoint. These students specialize in courses on electrical communication, which are given as engineering courses. They hope eventually to obtain positions as engineers or research physicists in large corporations...
...times humorous New England way, record the day by day progress of the siege as the weeks wore on. The first journal was kept by a man who was apparently on the inside of camp affairs which enabled him to write one of the best chronicles from an historical standpoint. The reader must remember that this expedition was undertaken with a distinct religious purpose, the colonists all feeling that they were carrying out the will of God and were making the world safe for the Protestants. It is not difficult to realize this from a casual glance at the diary...