Word: wholeness
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Navy opened the scoring five minutes after the start of play, when Captain Williamson passed the ball to Gurnette, who in turn tallied. During the whole of the first half, the Navy outplayed Harvard, keeping the ball away from its goal the greater part of the time. In the second half, however, the Crimson recovered, and a minute before the end of the game, Captain J. R. Bland '31, T. F. Waters '33 and D. M. Frame '32 made the tieing goal. Harvard forced play during the two extra periods, and missed numerous shots until H. H. Broadbent '32 finally...
...printed on the programs in black-faced type there are Eddie Foy Jr., and Tom Howard, the former one of the few that can raise a drunk scene to high art, and the latter one who makes no pretensions as to art but who can get far more whole-hearted laughs than a score of ordinary musical comedy wise-crackers Mr Ziegfeld has given his faithful public nothing to complain of as far as the personal of "Smiles" is concerned...
...paid this work. Certainly not all readers would acquire equal benefit from it; certainly the mellow vein of understanding, the whimsical, delicate irony will be lost on many. But there are no startling extremes to lead a reader away from the genuine excellence of the work as a whole...
...that the specific assignments should be very moderate in length, and that tutorial work should be merged with the chosen fields of study as far as possible. The most conspicuous aspect of these recommendations is the emphasis laid on the student who is interested in his work. Indeed, the whole trend of the investigation lies far from the position of forced education, far, even from the idea of education through a conscious stimulation by an instructor, tutor, or professor...
...whole book is brilliantly written despite the episodic character of the "footnotes." We may not have faith in the author's reasons for the supremacy of the East over occidental civilization, but we must admit that the book is easy, and altogether amusing, to read. For, after all, we need not take it seriously to enjoy...