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There is, in French 1, a choice between various methods of learning the principle parts of the verb "ennuyer." One can choose Mr. Kelsey as an instructor, and be bored with attempts to liven the classes with French geography and American social problems; one can choose Mr. Harvey and be bored with an interminable succession of "n'est-ce pas?'s." Or one can choose one of the other instructors with less developed technique, and take his chances on the method of boredom. It doesn't matter much in the end; one goes to as many classes as the Dean...
...effect. in his report of 1929-30 President Lowell spoke as follows of the student and his goal in the House community: "He must perceive that mere absorption from his instructors counts for little; that to learn-and for that matter to graduate-is an active, not a passive verb," Here is a bit of writing that states a principle already well mastered by its author; his influence has since tended farther than such a mere statement of the case, and into the active forefront of its solution...
...political speech of the kind which only Democrat Smith can make. Through every line of it could be heard the sharp twang of his voice. It was packed with his public mannerisms, salty with his unpolished rhetoric. He spoke of the "tough winter" ahead. He made a forceful verb out of "gold-brick." Democrats searched the editorial in vain for some reference to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Editor Smith was primed to talk about anything & everything connected with the 1932 campaign except the man his party nominated against his wishes at Chicago. The nearest he came to taking a direct crack...
...tide the Conference over this ugly crisis, Premier Edouard Herriot made one of those speeches which Frenchmen make so well. Keynote: "President Hoover's declaration was founded upon a noble idea." Bon mot: "In all languages the verb 'to disarm' seems to be an irregular verb...
...called "androtin" from the Greek root andros (man). Dr. McCullagh made a water solution of the same extract, found it acted directly upon the pituitary gland (which androtin does not), and so concluded that he had found a new hormone. He called it "inhibin," from the Latin verb inhibere (to restrain...