Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into poor-white psychology that enables him to unravel his county's crimes. Up to a point he is both likeable and credible-a Yoknapatawpha County Sherlock Holmes-but Faulkner runs him to the ground by overloading him with unnecessary and undemonstrated learning ("a Harvard graduate . . . who could discuss Einstein with college professors") and with too much folksy moralizing...
Kirkland House, not being satisfied with Concentration Dinners, holds deconcentration dinners as well. Classics majors get to talk about Social Relations or Chemistry concentrators may discuss world problems with someone from the Government Department. Other Houses have tried Concentration Dinners with less success. But not all the Houses have given the idea of informal education a chance...
Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, J. A. Richards, University Professor, and J. Douglas Bush, professor of English, will discuss the "Poet and Modern Society" at a symposium at 8 p.m. tonight in the Eliot House dining hall...
George Markham, of the CIO International Fur and Leather Workers, will discuss "The CIO Convention and the Future of American Laber" before a John Reed Club audience at 7:45 p.m. tonight at Phillips Brooks House...
...which most of the bottles were empties. The Daily Californian complained that the new rule "will mean a whole bottle instead of a drink. We'll just have to do our drinking parked up in the hills ..." Moreover, cried the student editors, by neglecting to discuss the decision with representatives of student groups, the administration had failed to treat students "like adults...