Word: falling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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French F and German F are entitled "Introduction to France" and "Introduction to Germany," respectively, but that is about all they have in common this year. The French course used to deal largely with French art, literature, history, political organization, etc., but in the fall of 1940 it turned up in new dress. So far this year it has concentrated on the present situation of France, to the exclusion of almost all the old material. Professor Andre Morize, Andre Maurois, and Father Ducatillon, a Dominican monk, have given lectures on various phases of beaten and divided France. The hour exams...
...Corn Is Green (by Emlyn Williams, produced by Herman Shumlin) joins a good sound sentimental play with just the actress for the job: Ethel Barrymore. Although its young Welsh author is best known in the U. S. for his murder drama Night Must Fall, this is no story of a psychopathic killer. It is a warm, wise semi-autobiography. It ran for nearly 700 performances in London, many during the blackout...
...final development would be for the Harvard O. C. to become a member of the Intercollegiate O. C. Association. Its members could then share in and enjoy such rousing good fellow-good fun occasions as the March Moosilauke winter weekend, or the fall weekend around Lake Placid...
...west until it now has reached England and may possibly cross the Atlantic. He blamed economic conditions of the common man as in great part responsible for this movement. When his income is rising the common man is content and gets along with his fellow men; when his income falls he becomes restless and this agitation tends to increase the fall. Men gather in groups, each hating the other, with war the eventual outcome...
Thus culture must rise or fall with political changes, he explained. "Because technical forces have unified the world we must think of world interests and not be partial to the interests of any single country," and "should reconcile our ideals to this standard...