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Hampered by an absence of active dramatic material in the life of Lee, the playwright took upon himself the leaden load of unrelieved character drawing. Lee was, first of all, a gentleman; gentlemen make a point of avoiding the spectacular. An even keel of character can leave only a steady wake. Steadiness implies monotony...
Undergraduates and others will perhaps object to adding another requirement when the general trend in college education appears to be away from requirements. If to add this would be to break the camel's back, then it would be far better to take off some other part of the load. Certainly if the government of the country is to be good and therefore to last, it must be served by the best educated men in the country. And to serve it at all those men must have at least some smatterings of intelligence about its workings. Unfortunately Americans...
...Technology and President M. L. Burton of the University of Michigan and many of the foremost practicing engineers in America. The society has an interesting key representing in its form the "bent" of a trestle, the most important section of that structure as far as the carrying of the load for which it was designed is concerned...
...open-space brother of the slavish father, carries the day for righteousness with a fine mixture of scorn, patience, idealism. Few of the multitudinous lines are unfamiliar, yet Author Jules Goodman insists on driving the lot home with dogged repetition. Helen Gahagan is courageous under her heavy load. Katherine Alexander, as a young sister of the oat-sower, furnishes a few waking moments by some realistic flapping...
During the first hour of flight their battery regulator gave trouble and only the hardest work enabled them to make it function. The excessive gasoline load carried forced them to fly dangerously low, 400 feet above the ground during the earlier stages of their trip...