Word: suggested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Officially the Division approaches its field by the "historical method," a vague phrase meant to suggest perhaps that it is more interested in cultivating gentlemen or scholars, than in training creative artists or enthusing aesthetes. More closely examined their educational system is seen to be a combination of three distinct attitudes towards the Fine Arts. They may be regarded as a set of values to be cultivated for their own sake; they may be studied as an achievement of the human mind, and considered from the point of view of style and of technique; they may be pursued...
Swiftly the stage shifts again to Moscow. In his new capacity the gay young man saw and met Lenin for the first time and the following quotation is his vivid impression of the Red leader: "There was nothing in his personal appearance to suggest even faintly a resemblance to the super-man. Short of stature, rather plump, with a short, thick neck, broad shoulders, round, red face, high intellectual forehead, nose slightly turned up, brownish moustache, and short, stubby beard, he looked more at first glance like a provincial grocer than a leader of men." Later when the Agent knew...
...Using course grades as a basis won't do; I know plenty of "C" men who, because of their personality and ability to think for themselves, make excellent tutees and respond well to tutorial work. On the whole, I should favor restricting tutorial instruction to Honors Candidates, as you suggest...
...there are doubtless those who would be unkind enough at this juncture to suggest that at a time when business is grouping for action of any sort provided only that it be definite the Senate would be better advised as to the nature of the word prestige if it took definite action on relatively important matters than if it quibbled sonorously over trifles, which, as Barry pointed out yesterday, even Senators have admitted to be true. Such an argument, however, neglects eternal verities. After all, to what end lame ducks and hueylongs? There are only twenty-three days left...
...Three years ago they squabbled about sand-wedges. Two years ago they were troubled by the balloon ball. Three weeks ago a new subject for contention arose when Gene Sarazen, British and U. S. Open champion, ill of influenza in a Santa Monica hospital, took it upon himself to suggest that the cups on putting greens be enlarged from 4¼ in. to 8 in. Reason: "A crack player and one just average are playing. The average player puts his ball on the green, say, 20 or 25 feet from the cup. The expert is closer...