Word: adapters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this country the secondary schools would also take upon themselves the task of fitting their students for life as well as for college, a great number of men who really do not belong in college would not be there now, and the intellectual standards of the university could adapt themselves to the capacities of the more intelligent students...
...evade and becloud a plain issue like the requirements for scrubwomen's wages under the State law and to make it necessary for a group of sensitive graduates to raise by public subscription money which the university really owed to these workers cannot complain if its undergraduate humorists adapt their wit to an official indifference better described as "contemptuous" than "aristocratic...
...annual report to the Board of Overseers, the President devotes considerable space to the Graduate School, pointing out that, while the School provides adequate training for "the industrious, worthy men who will find an honorable and highly useful place in secondary schools or in research laboratories", it does not adapt itself to the needs of the man who in college has already shown himself to be a scholar of more than mediocre potentiality...
...then the disastrous consequences of our present Pollyanna attitude might be averted. . . . We need the voice and spirit of Jeremiah. . . . If the business brains of this country were devoted to social problems rather than the making of money, economic life could readily be rescued from its inhumanity. . . . Unless we adapt our capitalistic society to the needs of the present age and adapt it to social planning and control,* some form of Communism will inevitably be thrust upon our children. Meanwhile verbal attacks on Communism will avail us nothing...
Lateral passes, one of the Harvard mainstays in past games, which last year were carried out with supreme success at the hands of Mays and Devens, the fleet backs who seemed especially adapt- ed to this form of offensive, have not proved the source of strength this year that they were last season, and with the definite loss of Devens, today's game should also throw some light as to how much emphasis will be placed on this type of play in the future. The on new man who seems to be a likely successor to Devens as a partner...