Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George Lyman Kittredge '82, Gurney Professor of English Literature, emeritus, gave the lecture last year, selecting as his subject "Ideas of the After Life in the Teutonic Religions...
...windy plains, and ultimate disaster. These are the events told by Homer in lines that for the few who still can taste them in this apostate age are the ultimate in poetic fare. No poetry of succeeding ages has rivaled them on this or even any other subject; no poetry, save perhaps the lines of the Hebrew Old Testament, have shed such influence on English literature...
Mechanical engineering is also a basic profession in modern industry. It is concerned with such activities as the development and transmission of power, the design and construction of machinery, and the operation of industrial plants. Although the subject matter of mechanical and civil engineering may differ greatly there is much overlapping of interest and both share the principles of applied mechanics as a common basis...
...misfortune is rudely rejected by Soviet justice. "Leningrad's Lucky House" shows an all-wise government taking control of a poor tenement's winning in a state lottery and administering it to everyone's disappointment and everyone's ultimate benefit. Mr. Duranty has loss success when he tackles the subject of the comparative success of Christianity and Communism as a working philosophy in "The Spirit Within." He merely states the proposition that they are opposed to one another seems to pull a weak and mystical oar in favor of the former. On the whole he is better on the humorous...
...among those interested in Harvard affairs in regard to the proposed use of the Littauer bequest. The new School of Public Administration, although still in an embryonic state, has at last been defined and planned out. It has been argued by many who profess to be authorities on the subject that the only way to train men for government service is to apprentice them to those in public offices. This method is the only one which has been tried out, and its results do not preclude the possibility of the even greater success of a newer and perhaps more progressive...