Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago did so even more thoroughly. Last week, in Chicago, Professor William Louis Bailey of Northwestern University revealed that he had a New Testament ready for publication, declared that he was the first sociologist to tackle Holy Writ from a sociologist's point of view...
Permission to solicit students was granted by the Student Council in view of the pressing need of the Fund and the desire to have Harvard contribute as generously as possible and as a corporate entity. The Council on their part voted $600 for the drive...
...general effect of the college boards is double. On the one hand, it forces the student to view his pre-college training as a series of hurdles to be leapt before he falls into the green pastures of a university. But lo and behold! once alighted he will discover that University Hall urges the mature student, through the general exam and tutorial systems, to see college as another series of jumps, climaxing in one big water hazard at the end. This conception of hurdles, series, and incessant academic strife seems at bottom false, an example of the commercialization of learning...
...Jesse James, the Outlaw and its sequels, Missouri's famed train robber was portrayed as a morally delinquent crook. Producer Darryl Zanuck naturally takes a kinder view of Jesse's failings. Purified in the person of Tyrone Power, Jesse James emerges brilliantly in Technicolor as an amiable brigand, genuinely devoted to his aged mother and generally more sinned against than sinning...
...just plain "loafers," these groups undoubtedly supply the tutoring schools with their most willing material. And the trend of increased concentration and increased pressure due to the influx of more and more students chosen from grade competition makes these activities a hazardous undertaking from the scholastic point of view. President Conant's words were indeed an encouraging sign for those who believe education in its broadest, sense to be the best possible adjustment of individuality...