Word: typing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story of France under Louis XI, when Francois Villon, poet and leader of the underworld, was presented with the throne for 24 hours. He loves a noble lady and he defies the force of hostile Burgundy encamped without the gates. The story seemed ideally suited to this type of entertainment; the characters generally suited, vocally and otherwise, to their assignments. Best of all were the chorus work?really extraordinarily fine in its ensemble singing?and the costumes of James Reynolds. There was rather a lack of laughter, but it did not seem to matter. The Vagabond King is as good...
...Other Studies,' published in 1912 and 1913. Since then important papers of his have appeared in the Modern Language Review, Studies in Philology, the Fortnightly Review, and in a number of other periodicals. Mr. Lawrence has no academic position, but is a private and independent scholar, of a type which is but too rare in this country...
...satisfying his distribution requirement of who feels that he would like an understanding of the scope and importance of physics. These two requirements are too diverse to be met by the same course. The course is too technical and not broad enough for those undergraduates of the second mentioned type. The hysteresis curve of the generator is taught, while personal experience brings to light the fact that from the professor down to the instructor there was no one who could answer the simple question as to how many volts are used in the operation of an apartment elevator motor...
...Samuel B. Rosenbaum. It is the post-graduate careers of these men that is interesting, for they are usually born teachers of an efficient, 20th Century kind. This month, the opening of a new preparatory school, The Milford School of New York, was an illustration of the "shark" type's capabilities. Thereby also hangs a story about stepladders to the golden apples of learning...
...Sound. This was distinctly not a cramming or tutoring school, yet retained "all the charm of the old regime"?i. e. special attention to individual cases, never more than five boys to a class. To the tutorial system were added dormitories, rules, athletics, school spirit. To the various types of scholastic failures, make-up students, sickly and discouraged boys, was added the brilliant type who sought to escape the lockstep of his former school and get ahead on the double. It was a distinctly successful experiment, as proved by a high record in the college board entrance examinations...