Word: tasked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entitled to at least one theme tower." More irreverent remarks than this have been made about the esthetic and symbolic value of the Fair's great ball and spike. At the other extreme, the Fair's publicity department, whose lyricism is more than adequate to its task, has described the Perisphere as symbolic of the all-inclusive World of Tomorrow and the Trylon as a Pointer to Infinity. To the architects who designed the centre, however, the Perisphere and Trylon make a good deal of plain, unsymbolic sense...
...this sole required course for Freshmen is to teach through discipline the how of writing. To speak is easy, even for the moron, but not to write. Expression on paper is perhaps the most difficult task that the educated man has to meet. A surprising number pass through Harvard knowing nothing about English literature and--most significant--ignorant of good grammar. To avoid a one-sided training, to stimulate the clarifying and transmitting of ideas, the University should compel, as a primary function, a writing course for every student, regardless of whether he escapes English...
...essential to a well-rounded education, but such a curriculum cannot be imposed at the expense of interest and initiative. If general courses are to be retained, it must be with instructors who are at once anxious and able to teach and to provoke student thought. Theirs is a task infinitely more complex than that of the school-room lecturer, for they are initiating the student into a world full of contradictions and injustices, and in so doing are giving him a social viewpoint he will carry through Harvard into life. As the Freshman suffers, society later will suffer...
...ought also to gauge as best he can the attitude of the advisce toward his new environment. With these standards raised, there lingers the question of whom to select. Certainly not those full professors who are unable to give at least three hours a week to the task, or who are too far apart in sympathy from Yardling youth; not fresh-from-college graduate students, but preferably men who fit in somewhere between the extremes...
Miss Celeste Holm, the young lady of "The Women" who plays the part of the girl relegated daily to the difficult task of acting from a bath tub, told the CRIMSON "I was terribly nervous and embarrased at first, but I have gotten used to it. The only complaint I have to make with the part is that the water at time is very chilly...