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...method." Dean Holmes retorts that there are more things in method than are dreamed of in your editorial-writer's philosophy. What are these things? For an answer, we might well consult that interesting but none too literate document--the catalogue of the Graduate School of Education. Its scope is indicated, more or less, by the following courses, picked at random and quoted verbatim...
...Maintenance Department, because of its huge scope necessarily furnished the largest report but the Biology Department, not to be outdone, when the more essential guardians of the appearance of the University demanded 18,000 tons of soft coal to add a weighty $90,000 to their budget, retaliated with an order for three Praying Mantel Ootheca, which the International Dictionary says is "an egg case, especially those of many kinds of mollusks and of some im insects, as the cockroach," to swell their total by $3. Oddly enough, the Purchasing Agent was forced to buy one gallon of Cidol disinfectant...
...Department of English he has held practically every possible position, and has served as chairman of the department; he has also served as chairman of the Division of Modern Languages, and chairman of the Department of Comparative Literature. The wide scope of his writings is noteworthy, covering the entire field of English Literature from Philological Studies of Norse and Old English down to modern grammar...
...West Wind (1929) passed comparatively unnoticed, Authoress Buck's second, The Good Earth, has taken the public's fancy to the tune of 22 printings, has recently been dramatized by Owen Davis & Son Donald, will be presented by the Theater Guild next autumn. A good tale, though of lesser scope, The Young Revolutionist, depicting Chinese idealism swing Christ-wards, will be many a missionary's meat. Mrs. Buck's Virginia parents, named Sydenstricker, were missionaries. She was born in China. Her husband heads Nanking University's farm management department. She well knows the importance of food in China. Once...
Harvard needs a theatre, not dependent on the box office, where dramatic art can be studied first hand and as a whole. This theatre should not be limited to the production of new plays or to those oddities which have been outside the scope of Broadway. In this new theatre the great plays of every age, the Greek tragedies, the French classics, the Elizabethan drama, should find modern expression...