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...reporters she showed her paintings, posed for photographs, and played her English lessons-a set of phonograph records from which a very cultivated British voice slowly enunciated: "The grandfather is sitting in an easy chair. The grandmother is also sitting in an easy chair." etc. Very much in the background was childlike Frau Jack's quiet husband. An active stage designer, he carried in his pocket a contract to do a series of articles, crayon portraits of U. S. gangsters for the Berlin magazine Detectif. With a sound working knowledge of grandfather sitting in his easy chair and other...
Since the object of the reading in the Bible and Shakspere is to give students a background for the study of any period in the field of History and Literature, it ought to be done as early as possible. If the examinations in these subjects came in May of the Sophomore year instead of at the present inappropriate time, they would be less irritating to those who have to take them, and far more likely to fulfill their purpose...
...excellent acting of the cast against the intensely dramatic background provided by the director combined to produce a thoroughly good talking picture...
...weakness in the Columbia plan lies in the method by which they propose to determine each student's individual needs. The idea of a faculty conference with each student to fashion the student's curriculum after considering his ability, cultural background, and intelligence as determined by psychological tests, assumes that the student has formulated some very definite conceptions as to his professional objective. In this age of complicated professional life with its multitude of different fields of endeavor, it is extremely hard for a young college undergraduate after one year of residence to single out definitely one field toward which...
...Social, Economic, Religious, and Artistic Background of the period from 1750-1800," Professor Greenough, Sever...