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...student does not respond to the conference or to the tasks assigned him, it is either because he has no interest, active or latent, in the field in which he is concentrating, or because his tutor is not interesting and does not inspire. Avoidance of this latter possibility is essential. On the personalities of the tutors depends the efficiency of the system, and care in their selection is the administrative function, of primary importance. As to the other possibility, a capable tutor can judge of a man's interest in his work, and can recommend a change of concentration either...
...defending himself. His latest caricature may cause an explosion or two, but statesmen's hair will hardly turn prematurely grey over night, nor will an epidemic of Anglophobia convulse the U. S. More chuckles than anything can be expected to ruffle the Atlantic. Nonetheless, the danger is latent. Anglo-American friendship rests on the good feelings of each people and that disposition is not shown by the diplomats but by the artists and authors...
Great plumbing economies were effected by passing water through scrap iron before letting it enter the pipes. The scrap iron exhausted the water's corrosive powers, latent in dissolved air. ?Robert J. McKay, International Nickel...
...latest chainizer, calling itself Gillette Camera Stores, Inc., selling kodaks, recently opened in Manhattan with two stores and 100-odd agencies which it calls "Gillette Film Stations." At these, one buys his latent roll of film, deposits his potential pictures for developing and printing at a central laboratory with a capacity of 10,000 rolls per day, to and from which delivery trucks course...
What, as Americans, our forefathers and our peers have done in bring the semitics here, we, also as Americans, must submit is done and, we had better make the best of it--and the best is education, not suppression of native facilities that must possess some latent good. But away with argument. they're here, in Harvard, and nobody's going to put them out, not even supposing that it were desired to put them out. They are part of our cosmopolitan structure, our democratic structure. If you please. They have some with evolution and other things and they...