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Such people may be tempted to buy a new car when they see the 1933 automobile shows, led off as usual by the New York Automobile Show last week. On exhibit were 300 models representing 29 makes of cars. Some of the usual element of surprise was missing because many manufacturers, sales-hungry " (and perhaps wiser than before) had already revealed their 1933 wares. But even jaded engineers and salesmen found much to get excited about. And never before in its 33 years has the Show been such a show in the showman's sense...
Questioned specifically about the nature of the Tutorial System, Palmer expressed the opinion that it did defeat to some extent, one desirable element in undergraduate life, since it tends to make courses larger, leaving individual work to the tutors. "No longer," he said, "is there as much actual contact between the lecturer and the student as there used to be. This is not true in every case by any means, but its being true at all is lamentable, since in no way can a college give more to its students than by this communion between men who have, in some...
...right. And then, though the Doctor works like a bull to get the epidemic under control, his enemies go to work to put the blame on him. As Board of Health terrier he should have smelled out the rat that polluted the town's water supply. The "better element." cumulatively exasperated by Doc Bull's plain speaking and low living, rally to get his scalp. With conscious irony Author Cozzens lets the town villain, smart Henry Harris, save Dr. Bull's hair by turning the laugh on his enemies, persuading the town that the Doctor...
Although at first glance this move may appear to be in keeping with the general concentration of activities in the Houses, there is something to be said in favor of those House masters who opposed just such a move two years ago on the basis that an alien element would thus be introduced in the House dining halls. Undoubtedly the first reaction of a House member on entering his dining room and seeing a large table filled with the members of other Houses does not tend toward making him become more House-conscious, nor is the House spirit...
...scholastic enterprise. The training table in the hallowed environment of the Varsity Club strengthens the morale and comradeship of a team, more than would be the case in a House dining hall. But it should lot be so much on this basis as on that of introducing an alien element into the House dining halls that the training tables should be sent back to the Varsity club as soon as financially practicable...