Word: imperfections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This plan is admittedly imperfect and tentative, but the late unpleasantness should be sufficient evidence that the need which it outlines is far from ethereal. House Librarians have enjoyed a considerable degree of independence; and in general their consequent interest has resulted in efficiency. But as long as they remain practically the sole judges of their own management, one may reasonably expect occasional carelessness and abuses...
...should like to preface my remarks by saying that I am a firm believer in the value of the tutorial system, and by this I mean the tutorial system that is now in effect at Harvard. It is manifestly imperfect, but with all its imperfections it represents a considerable advance over the educational system prevailing at Harvard twenty years ago. In my opinion the tutorial system has been successful in stimulating the intellectual interests and the intellectual achievements of the superior, and also of the average, student to a point far beyond that attained before the system was introduced...
...film. Even if a study of the relative merits of both systems should prove that neither excels the other, there is little doubt that a perfected experiment projected on a large screen, visible to every one will in the end be less expensive and more convenient than the present imperfect arrangement...
...gayest of all gay musical films has come again to the Fine Arts Theatre. This German operetta, with its inexpensive sets, its modest casting, its imperfect sound-recording, carries exuberance and spontaneity unknown to Hollywood. American films may be suaver, better sung, more pretentious, but charm evades them all. For charm is a volatile essence to which the American temperament and the Hollywood system of incubation remains unkind...
...gayest of all gay musical films has come again to the Fine Arts Theatre. This German operetta, with its inexpensive sets, its modest casting, its imperfect sound-recording, carries exuberance and spontaneity unknown to Hollywood. American films may be suaver, better sung, more pretentious, but charm evades them all. For charm is a volatile essence to which the American temperament and the Hollywood system of incubation remains unkind...