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Beginning with the early colonial period, Mr. Schlesinger traces the evolution of manners. He describes the "minor morals" attitude of the earliest mentors, when American manners formed an adjunct to law and social structure, and punishment was swift for makers of ugly faces. With the Revolution and rise of republicanism, however, Mr. Schlesinger professes to see in manners the effort of common people to reach equality--a levelling process. A new conception of manners as a set of specific injunctions to be memorized developed, and a steady stream of manners books was demanded by the etiquette-hungry American people...
Although there are no entrances requirements and no prerequisite examinations, the program carries with it credit towards the degree of Adjunct in Arts at Harvard. All courses are held in the late afternoon evening, or Saturday morning. Tuition fees are $2.50, or $5.00. The program is supported, in part, by grants from the Lowell Institute. Last year there were 1,243 registrations...
...adjunct to the turbo-encabulator, employed whenever a barescent skor motion is required...
...spite of everything the war taught -the devastation of Germany and Japan by the Air Forces and the delivery of the atom bombs-the Navy's high brass still talks of air power as an inseparable adjunct of sea power-comparable, say, to the submarine force. Some admirals still think of tactical aircraft as a weapon something like a 16-in. naval gun. And on that stubborn basis they will fight to the end any threat to the old, traditional prestige of the surface ship. They were fighting desperately last week, somewhere near their one-yard line...
...leadership, became a universal currency - a circumstance shattered by World War I which broke up the gold standard, and left England debt-ridden. In the post-World War I period, under recently-retired Governor Montagu Collet Norman, it reestablished the gold standard for six years, thereafter became a virtual adjunct of the British Treasury...