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...Even more outstanding is the fine acting on the part of the entire cast. There is not a single role which could be called easy, and there is likewise no role that is not played excellently. The three refugee children are portrayed with careful emphasis on the difference in background that makes them seem so strange to Americans. Lucille Watson, as their wealthy grandmother, turns in one of the best presentations of an elderly Grande Dame ever seen on the stage. Helen Trenholme and John Lodge do fine jobs in two of the less difficult roles, while George Coulouris adds...
Under the proposed plan, concentrators who wish to prepare along pre-war lines will find the field little altered and a full opportunity to study as in the past. The demands of the current crisis, however, have thrown business as usual into the background and opened the way for the development of an objective service branch in Economics...
...going to make the games as interesting and as competitive as possible," he explained. "The purpose of the program is to give each student the good physical background that we feel is essential for future training in the Army and for the general health of the nation in time of war. We are using military men for the first part of the program not because we want to teach military training, but because we want to give future officers the experience in leading men that they will need in the army," Bingham emphasized...
Similarly, the Philosophy Department has already made changes in the content of existing courses "to cover problems connected with the world situation." New courses are planned for the summer and fall "giving a philosophical background to present world problems." Calling for a retention of the liberal tradition the Department stated. "So far as the war is a war of ideas or ideologies, the Department of Philosophy has a large responsibility in interpreting the issues. The actual defects in our practices under the heads of 'individualism,' 'liberalism,' 'democracy,' which have provoked in some quarters their radical rejection, have to be examined...
...touch upon advanced topics in their special fields, but in a war training program this aspect of a liberal education must be sacrificed. Not only does it delay mathematical training, but it makes it impossible for the teachers of other science courses to count upon a working mathematical background in their students. More than one post-Christmas physics lecture has had to be suddenly reorganized upon the discovery that half the class was unaware of the meaning of an integral sign or a differential...