Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...students as they stood peacefully awaiting an opportunity to protest the welcoming of the German cruiser "Karlsruhe" Boston's highly touted police force was on hand to dispel the crowd before any kind of demonstration could be staged. The necessity of maintaining law and order is acknowledged, but the manner in which it was done yesterday, even before the necessity for so doing arose, may be subject to the harshest criticism...
...interesting to compare this attitude with that of President Hutchins of Chicago, and President Wilbur of Stanford. Both have implied that Harvard and Yale have little to offer the Westerner that he cannot obtain at his State University in a manner more suited to the western ideal of education. House plan and tutorial system are not for the West, we are informed...
...their underwriting and banking income. Lehman Brothers, which is primarily a banking house, reported $12,000,000 profits for 1928 and 1929. Obviously, the bulk of these profits had nothing to do with the fact that the firm has a seat on the Stock Exchange. In the same manner Goldman, Sachs & Co. reported a profit of $6,681,000 in 1928, $7,900,000 in 1929, only to be followed by a thundering $9,000,000 loss in 1930. Mr. Pecora failed to compare brokers' profits to brokers' capital or total volume of business. No one knows...
...five sisters; a post-War novel on a big scale. SUPERSTITION CORNER-Sheila Kaye-Smith-Harper ($2.50). Adventures of a Roman Catholic heroine under Protestant Queen Bess; by the author of Joanna Godden. MARIA PALUNA-Blair Niles-Longmans, Green ($2.50). Latin-American historical romance (Guatemala) treated in the grand manner. JONAH'S GOURD VINE-Zora Neale Hurston-Lippincott ($2). Negro novel by a Negress. Non-Fiction...
...those who instill in the student a desire to research on his own part. There are all too many instructors who are fully versed in their fields, who are fully versed in their fields, who are capable of genuine contribution, and who present their knowledge in an orderly manner, without, however, making the student feel it would be worth his while to attempt to discover facts hitherto unearthed. All too often, the student is deterred by the instructor's negative approach. There is little inspiration in being told, or in sensing from the teacher's attitude, "Here...