Word: recommendations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...economy which the Student Council Committee on Board may recommend would calf for more student waiters. Unlike the Union, the Houses have never employed many students in the dining halls; for the University felt that they would interfere with the attempt to create a clubby House atmosphere...
Henderson and Palmer do warn against the old-fashioned maestro who teaches affectation and artificial pretension but they actually recommend using a teacher who "honestly understands and sympathizes with your goal" (of singing to the masses). There are many enlightened vocal teachers in the country today whose business might be unjustly affected by the mistaken inference that this book, destined to become the authority on the subject, advises against their employment...
Believing that the schools should help graduates from the schools to find jobs, Carr said he was in favor of vacation guidance bureau to study the aptitudes of the school children, and recommend courses which would help them find job. The bureau would also serve as a placement office...
...Several of the ten who were fired showed extraordinary brilliance during their terms at Harvard. It is quite certain that better men will not turn up. It is even more certain that these assistant professors were not judged fairly, when it is considered that their departments were forced to recommend their dismissals--after the manner of the Walsh-Sweezy Case-- because there was no other possible expedient. All this is beside the point that they are leaving behind them gaping holes during the next four or five years, before the new teaching geniuses come to light...
...double bill that harps a little too consistently on its tune of social significance still makes claims to being good entertainment. The combining of "Our Leading Citizen" and "These Glamour Girls" was unfortunate, but both pictures have many points that recommend them. In the main feature, Bob Burns gives a healthy demonstration of tolerance as a philosophy of life. His portrayal is of a homely lawyer who patterns his ideals after those of Lincoln. In fact, a bust of Lincoln reigns over his office desk. None of the acting in the picture is exceptional, and none of the parts...