Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Egyptians called Cleopatra the Symbol of Love, But the Romans called her just a PUSHOVER...
When Alexander MeikleJohn's Experimental College was being tried at the University of Wisconsin, an Athenian owl was its symbol, a device for experimentees to wear on their sweaters. Year ago the College was disbanded, and because of lack of funds no new version of it has been instituted. Like the Athenian owl, Dr. Meiklejohn folded his wings, looked wise. Last week he found a new roost to fly to. In San Francisco next September he will head a new "Adult Center for Social Studies." No entrance requirements will be set, no credits will be given. Dr. Meiklejohn will...
...degree as a man who had bought well for his college. Surveying the welter of estimable mediocrities who are annually acclaimed at Commencement, it does not always appear that they have performed a better service. Actually, few academic traditions have been more causally corrupted than that by which the symbol of scholarship is bestowed on persons of exceptional distinction in intellectual life of public service. The unhappy fact is that many colleges which are so liberal with their sheepskins lack faculties capable of measuring achievement from the point of view of scholarship...
...members of the course. Especially suited to the desires of the student who wishes definite instruction concerning the business of the theatre as well as instruction in public speaking, the chief attraction of the course is the congenial atmosphere of informality with which it is conducted. More than a symbol of Professor Baker's vigorous sojourn at Harvard, English 10b stands as a healthy prophecy that the University will again, sometime, have a "live" department of the Drama...
...Manuel 3G, the first speaker, discussed "Hitler's Rise to Power" from an historical view. He was quite vehement in expressing the opinion that the mistreatment of the Jews in Germany by the Hitler regime was merely an age old vent; that it was really a symbol of the economic struggle which was going on in Germany today, as well as in every country in the world. He said that the Nazi regime really was decreed in the summer of 1932, when Von Papen, who was then in power, attempted to seize the power of the Prussian state. When Sevening...