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Clearly, with no incentive for good teaching--in fact, when holding a teaching job demands that teaching be relegated to the background,--it is not surprising that the teaching level of the Physics department is at a discouragingly low ebb. Concentrators complain that tutorial is a farce. No tutor can be expected to give adequate attention to that part of his work when to do so is nothing short of suicidal. Three years are required to develop an inexperienced instructor into a good tutor; by that time one of two things has happened to him. He has tried to become...
...well as a contemporary appeal. Others concentrated due to a simple desire to read, write, and speak French, a thing which concentrators said could easily be done but which, as far as the speaking goes, could also easily be avoided. Still others chose it because they desired the literary background which the extensive reading in French would give them. None of the concentrators, including those who entered because it was easy, declared themselves disappointed with their choice...
Dorothy Peterson's efficient common-sense provides the suitable background for the doctor's homely philosophy and Slim Summerville is an amusing although unconvincing country constable. Thomas Qualen carries through his biggest assignment as a proud father with great success while June Lang and Michael Whalen both turn in good bits in their unfortunately brief appearances...
...last year the four competitors in the race for the honor and profit of promoting the first transatlantic airline between Europe and North America have been England, France, Germany, and the United States, but the former two have been forced into the background because of technical difficulties. On May 6 the new German dirigible, Von Hindenburg, will inaugurate a regular North Atlantic service between Frankfort and Lakehurst. No one can deny that this link in the chain of transportation around the world is a vastly more important one than the recently initiated transpacific airline of Pan American Airways. In August...
...family doctor. "I knew," said she last week, "this beloved physician was not in a position to tell me more about my throat than the man who had already spoken so authoritatively on the subject. But he did know a great deal about my general health and background and I wished to add his opinion to that of the specialist who happened to make the examination...