Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obscures its obvious aim. The Church has succeeded in the elimination of the Communists and hence have no desire to support either Dollfuss or the Nazis, both of whom they agree with. The clerics have waged a long and bitter fight against the steady rise of Marxism, with especial success among the doltish peasantry. As was pointed out by me last week, the Marxian socialist party, long Austria's most powerful party, is now practically dead. The man who did this was Engelbert Dollfuss, the party who made him was the Christian Socialist Party. This was publicly symbolized...
...movies are too artificial and mechanical. Of course, Hollywood has many great artists, but the greater part of the success of motion picture shows depends on the work of directors and producers rather than the actors and actresses. The trend of pictures today is toward artificiality, while plays are turning more and more in the direction of naturaliness. I do not mean that one trend is any more desirable than the other. For example, I think Mac West is a marvelous actress, and yet there is certainly nothing very natural or genuine in the acting of screenland...
...acquiesce. Should Harvard release Yale from the September 15 agreement, it will simply mean that football practice at Cambridge will have to commence sooner, that sniffer schedules will eventually be arranged; it will mean a return to all the emphasis and ballyhoo from which Harvard has, with some success been trying to extricate its football...
Because of this and other progress in better understanding of pupils, and also because of statistical proof that entrance examinations are not a very accurate prediction of college success, important modifications are being made in entrance requirements and methods. A strong influence for this change is recognition of the fact that the examinations have largely controlled and inhibited changes in the curricular of secondary schools...
...first step, then, must be for the departments to persuade their leading men to become tutors. It is a type of work worthy of the finest minds, and is emphatically not beneath the dignity of full professors, or brilliant research men. The future success of tutorial work depends to a large extent upon these men consenting to take over a few tutees. In this connection, the University ought to pursue a definite policy of lending prestige to the position of tutor. In some degree, this will naturally result from a system of limiting the number of tutors...