Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...English in those students who have not acquired such an ability before entering college. The Engineering student, fully occupied with the rigorous requirements of his specialized training, has not the incidental opportunity to develop a clear and facile style in writing which literature courses, and written reports afford his classmate in the College. Moreover, while English A was far from a panacea for all difficulties, the abolition of the English. A requirement for those who pass the English college board with a mark of 70 per cent or better has complicated rather than solved the problem. Confronted by the danger...
...name of Thomas Mann is nowhere near as famous in this country as that of Schnitzler or Wassermann; but in Germany, Herr Mann's novels rank as easily the peers of any written by these other men of a more cosmopolitan appeal. The recent appearance of four of his works in English translations has aroused some interest among discerning readers. The following article was written especially for the BOOKSHELF by a family friend and fellow-townsman of Herr Mann's.-Editor's Note...
...Tonio Kroeger" Knopf, New York, is a short novel, perhaps the best one Thomas Mann has ever written, certainly the one which hit most remarkably right into the center of all problems that vexed the younger generation of Germany at the beginning of this century, the generation which was morbidly inclined to believe that they were all decadents, and devoted to nothing but art for art's sake...
...chronicle. It is purely experience of the soul, action-or not even that,-reflection of the mind. Seven years, spent in a sanitarium in the Swiss Mountains-what can you expect of such an absurd period in a man's life? But that is what the book is written around, a wonderful book, full of contemplative thought, of dialectic discussion, of wisdom. It is the ripest of the author's works, it is his most German work. It may well be questioned whether it will ever be worthwhile to translate it-so much of art in language can hardly...
...everyone to ignore the recognized signs which represent the alphabet and to develop a species of short hand, intelligible only to themselves. This is only too evident in present day business life, where practically all correspondence is typewritten. Business men realize the difficulty of interpretting letters written in ordinary long hand, and they save themselves trouble by arranging their transactions through the medium of a typewriter...