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...concentrators was the constantly recurring and inescapable requirement of papers and second term hour exams in other courses just before divisional examinations, especially in the case of Senior honors candidates. But the general feeling was that there is no field in the University which can return more interest and background for the amount of effort...
...take on more boys than they can advance at a reasonable rate, and they should avoid "overpainting" the future to the men; and (6) A current major problem is to place the liberal arts graduates out over the next ten years-- more openings should develop for men with a background in the social sciences, economics, governmental affairs, and unman engineering...
...Darryl Zanuck's interest in history generally and the U. S. gaslight era particularly is by no means pedantic. Nonetheless, if nothing that happens in This Is My Affair, from Lieutenant Perry's correspondence with McKinley to the scandal which he unearths, can be readily substantiated, the background of everything that happens in the picture has a carefully documented and persuasive authenticity. Far more successful than Robert Taylor's rigidly uninspired performance as the hero are those of Robert McWade, Frank Conroy and Sidney Blackmer respectively as Dewey, McKinley and Roosevelt I. Good shot: Roosevelt polishing...
...good introductory course for beginners is now offered in Psychology A, providing the same sort of background to the field as History 1 and Philosophy A do for theirs. This course and Psychology 5, 24, and 16 are recommended not only as among the best to take but as essential for divisionals. 21, a or b, or 22b are also suggested as good for this purpose...
...ancestors were early first citizens of Manhattan (whose etymology he gives as Man-a-hat-ta-nink, a place of general in-toxication), Virginia, South Carolina, Texas. His grandfather's unbranded cattle gave rise to the term '"maverick"-an unbranded yearling; hence independent, a rover. With this background it would not have been surprising if Maury Maverick had turned out a clan-conscious, reactionary Southerner. Clan-conscious he undoubtedly is, but he says he is as conscious of his forbears' failings as of their fame. cites an Irish murderer and an opponent of Patrick Henry to prove...