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...position of prime importance. Wide use of moving pictures in science, history, and fine arts courses would offer all students the advantage of a vivid, concise presentation of carefully arranged subject matter and would reduce the burden of lecturing to the minimum. At Harvard it would allow the upper stratum of the faculty, now overweighted with course work, to devote more of its time to individual and tutorial studies. These benefits cannot be secured if the Film Foundation is allowed to languish in silence to an unmourned demise. Stimulated by an increased use of its productions in courses, it might...
Though its date is still in doubt, the occurrence of the Flood is indicated by an eight-foot stratum of sediment (implying an immense depth of water) found in Ur of the Chaldees. Beneath this were relics of an even older civilization...
...third stratum of Joyce's book even deeper meanings appear. Stephen represents the intellect, the creative imagination; Mrs. Bloom the earth, the flesh; Bloom the average half-intelligent, half-sensual man. Like ancient Troy, Ulysses is many cities on one foundation. If the plain reader keeps on digging he may discover that each of Ulysses' 18 episodes is written in its own style, in which Joyce has tried to blend the minds of the characters, the place, atmosphere, feeling of the time of day. Each episode turns on an organ of the body, an art and a particular...
Some gatophobes commit felicide. They belong to the middle stratum of cat-haters. Others so morbidly hate & fear cats that they are too paralyzed by one's presence to be able to kill it. More normal and far more numerous are those gatophobes whose comparatively mild aversion to cats finds expression only in "s-s-scatting," throwing shoes, occasional kidnapping...
...houses with instructors and entertainers. The program has been worthwhile not only for the charitable institutions but for the workers themselves. Some men have received an opportunity to test their teaching ability by actual practice; many have welcomed the chance to study the customs and conditions of another social stratum; all have experienced the exhilaration of volunteer service work. Hitherto, upperclassmen have responded in large numbers; but now House interests have diverted their attention. In altering its organization to fit new conditions, the Phillips Brooks House takes a well considered step toward insuring its efforts hearty support that the work...