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...inference, immediately drawn in many quarters, that such a system would mark a salutary step forward in other liberal arts colleges, is not very soundly based. For among the chief implications of personalized admission is an increased flexibility in standards. If this purpose were not in the background, admission rules and a selective system need not be mutually exclusive, for inflexible standards might be applied and a personal evaluation made of the survivors. As the sole system in use, selective admission must lower standards, and the decline must be reflected in the secondary schools whose graduation requirements are already painfully...
...scarcely more detailed than 1d, and the proposed courses, although enlarged by two more arts in scope, might easily give a treatment of the history of architecture as adequate as that now offered. Moreover, requiring architecture men to learn the fundamentals of other arts as background would have a broadening effect. Fine Arts 1d might serve a useful role in providing an artistic introduction for those about to travel to Europe, but it should not be continued as a prerequisite for concentrators or as the only course offering general preparation for divisionals...
Capt. Heinen was seated in one of the wide-armed Press chairs, painstakingly writing notes of testimony, when the judge advocate called him to the witness stand. Taking the jumbled jigsaw bits of eyewitness testimony, he fitted them against his own background of experience...
Turning to the screen we find "Cavalcade," at popular prices at the Metropolitan while "Gabriel Over the While House," Katherine Hepburn in "Christopher Strong," and "42nd Street" are still in the immediate vicinity. "Cavalcade" and "42nd Street" illustrate the increasingly effective use of musical themes and orchestral backgrounds in building up emotional effects in harmony with the picture. Thus one of the greatest virtues of the silent film has been resurrected. The orchestral background is the 1933 prototype of the organ which played "Oh Susanna" for the "Covered Wagon" and "Marche Slav" when brontosauri stalked through "The Lost World...
...rivalry which would have a very salutary effect upon the mental activity of the participants. But indeed, from the point of view of more technical educational theory, the method of the small class is known to be more successful than the method of individual instruction when matters of general background, rather than of specialized detail, are to be discussed; and the sophomore tutorial work has precisely this object in mind. (Name withheld by request...