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...opera. Of this pile of cash a very substantial share has been invested in what has been perhaps the most immense hoopla campaign since Thomas A. Edison invented the motion picture. Such an unparalelled barrage of publicity has been such a long stretch of time that quite a sizable fraction of the population already is intent upon seeing the picture, for no particular reason other than having heard its name so many times. And a good many of them are liable to be very disappointed with what they see; not only because it will come as such a letdown after...
...over 800 veterans are on their rolls and at least nominally behind what broadsides describe as a "liberal, dynamic program," AVC has for some time not been able to move as tellingly as it might. A normally vigorous executive board has had to content itself with utilizing only a fraction of the pressure potential inherent in the organization. The restless and dissatisfied veteran who pinned his pent-up hopes here is prey to disillusion and embitterment...
...bottom of Group III. But letter grades and receptivity do not always walk hand in hand. The invaluable aid which face-to-face instruction can provide, especially in the social studies, should warrant placing tutorial on a voluntary rather than an academic basis, opening it to all save that fraction whose indifference is congenital...
This showing represents only a fraction of last year's talent that Dick Harlow will have to work with again next fall. Filling the all-important quarterback slot and finding a replacement for graduating center Jack Fisher will present the major problems in shaping a team that presently appears well stocked in the other positions...
...haleyon days of the 1930s, when the Bureau was first conceived, tutoring schools of the square served some 60 percent of the student body, enabling many of their clients to graduate after having attended only a small fraction of their classes and having completed only a rigidly digested portion of their work...