Word: recently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...figures show that there has been a movement towards wider distribution by concentrators during recent years as compared with the early years of the last decade. In 1921, 45 per cent of the upperclassmen concentrated in English and Economics. Today 35 per cent are spread over Economics, Government, and English...
Novel and refreshing, judging by standards now in vogue, are the theories of teaching outlined by the poet Robert Frost in a recent interview with the press. Mr. Frost, who is conducting a weekly class at Harvard this year, holds no brief for stereotyped spoon-fed education. He states frankly that for him education is a take-it- or-leave-it affair in which he will "just keep silent, or even lie down on the desk until it is realized that what I want is self-starters, not followers of a set routine...
Those who admire Coffin poetry may be disappointed in his most recent prose attempt, for the chronicle of the Pennells is almost strictly a narrative with little room left for the author's creative talent. What poetic expressions there are occur only in small snatches. The book is a diary which relies on simplicity and authenticity for its effect...
Marx Bros. At The Circus (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) checks the recent decline in Marx Brothers' pictures with two of their fastest, funniest sequences-a riotous Newport society and circus climax, and Groucho doing a combination rumba, tango and nautch dance with one pant leg kitten-ishly hoisted while he sings of his tattooed lost love, Lydia that Encyclopedia...
Revision of Harvard's constitutional set-up in the direction of more Faculty democracy is called for in two recent articles in leading liberal weeklies criticizing the Administration's tenure policies...