Word: tended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moment, the German department has a staff of recognized scholastic capacity but as teachers some of these men are as dull and uninspiring as they are learned and erudite. Cold and prosaic lecturers and tutors unconcerned with the progress of students in some cases tend to deaden the field. It is understood that certain faculty changes to be realized in the near future with to some extent obviate this difficulty...
Summary of Concentrators comments on men in the German Department: Walz, Howe, Lieder, Cawley older men in the department who are authorities in their field but tend to be rather uninspiring to undergraduates as lecturers. Starck--clear lecturer, con- genial. Heffner--stimulating, gives the literary angle. Nolte--good tutor (especially for divisional), knows his literature, material somewhat disorganized in German 6. Herrick--stimulating personality. Hawkes--progressive, interesting, good in composition courses. Cross--brilliant and interesting, the power of the Department. Vietor--good lecturer. Shelley--good younger tutor
Sedate maiden ladies! Perhaps Mr. Caffrey was seeking the spacious home of some wealthy widow wherein he might rest his weary bones. But our sedate maiden ladies tend to their own knitting and ARE particular with whom they associate...
...return to the original point, we tend to lean toward the Music Department and their suspicions--and at any rate we should certainly shudder at the thought of several dozen tons of metal shimmying overhead in their makeshift moorings...
...Senator Nye's bill passes Congress," he declared, "the administration of law in the next war will tend to tighten conscription over individual lives far more than over individual property...