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...soften the fact that Mr. Cohan's delivery is a nasal, almost snarling monotone which is the epitome of Broadway and has no more modulation than a piccolo rendition of Yankee Doodle, or that his famed chuckle derives much of its effect from its irrelevance to the context. Ed Fulton likes lilacs and Tennyson's poetry, wants his family to be happy. His daughter is unhappy because she is treated like a child, and because her sweetheart's father is an old enemy of Ed Fulton's. When the young pair go off for a clandestine...
...enough to read nursery rhymes, but apparently eluded Mr. Tunis's keen perception in his anxiety for headline material. I have not been able to secure a copy of his book [Was College Worth While?], but judging from the reviews he has lifted a sentence out of its context and omitted a qualifying phrase completely, without seemingly offending his sense of journalistic honor. In case anyone takes sufficient interest, which I doubt, to prove Mr. Tunis's conclusions hokum-except perhaps as they apply to his own class-he could make a good start by comparing myself...
...What a world of difference is there between give-and-take living talk and the stale dead ashes of conversations raked over and microscopically dissected after many months! "The whole atmosphere and emphasis are changed. Transitions from one subject to another are blurred. Phrases taken from the context and subjected to a frigid post-mortem are hardly recognizable...
Recommendations for the reform of elementary courses should be scrutinized carefully. Hardly a dissenting voice can be found among critics of Psychology A. Its context, assigned reading and lecturer are attacked with a fervour which carries conviction. Psychology is regarded as being over-technical and quite beyond the attainments of most beginners. There is practically unanimous opinion that reconstruction of the elementary courses is not some time in the distant future but immediately...
...England. The book is largely made up of letters written by Antony, mostly to his father and mother, with occasional replies and explanatory comment, and never do these aristocratic characters step out of the role to which it pleased their forefathers to call them. Ripped from the context of a commoner's life these letters would still be unusual; from the pen of a viscount they seem extraordinary. Those who think that the good old breed of English aristocrat has vanished will realize after reading Antony that one example has only recently died and that at least one other...