Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...intention of reducing armaments, but she finds herself in the position of being constrained to continue to build warships to maintain parity with Britain. The Model Assembly may not produce anything tangible in its mild attempt at crusading; but there will be one consolation for the delegates: their deliberations cannot possibly be put into reverse and produce a new spurt of cruiser-building...
...main point that "Hit the Deck" brings out is the possibilities that the musical comedy has in the talking pictures. The absence of shifting scenes and the great range of situations gives an advantage, that the legitimate stage cannot hope to rival. Moreover, a judicious use of the camera makes it easily possible to look at the various scenes from a great variety of interesting angles without the discomfort of having to crane one's neck beyond the sides of the corpulent lady that always sits in the next...
...book is of average length, and of usual degree of difficulty. We cannot say how successful it will be, or whether any of my colleagues will be convinced of its value at this time. It will be used in Physics C next year...
...view the question in its general aspect, however, we cannot help but think that the American college student needs a good deal more supervision than do his fellow students in England and on the continent. While in American students may go to college primarily to learn something--most of them do not know exactly what--in the European schools students are there only to learn. Learning and culture are not their primary objects for higher education, they are their only objects. The American college then is a three-sided institution where study, activities and social life all have their place...
...college students go through the ages and over the countries of the world. Where before most of the regulatory work had to do with study, now in America the colleges are forced to take up the infinitely more complex problem of regulation of its members is a question that cannot be solved merely from the perusal of this college controversy. It is the same question as to whether the federal or state government has the power to make us stop buying liquor. The only general observation that can be made is that too minute regulation of the individual...