Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present time too many students are admitted to college merely on their ability to obtain high grades at school, and to pass the comparatively simple requirements of the college boards. Little attention is paid to a student's ability to adjust himself to a new scholastic standard, to a new intellectual, social and moral environment. Too many men who lack sufficient moral and mental stability, arrive at college, and because they are unprepared to cope with entirely different conditions, they often are ruthlessly "flunked out." Many of these unfortunates are thus led to believe that they are complete failures...
...appointment of Solicitor General Stanley Reed to the Supreme Court gives President Roosevelt reasonable assurance that he can now carry out his program unhampered by constant judicial interference. The United States needs a high court that can adjust legal theory to economic reality in the face of rapidly changing conditions. We can no longer afford the cultural lag that has so long afflicted the judiciary...
Appointed last fall to serve as "missing links" between the Dean's Office and Hygiene Department and students, Williams and his associate, Norris P. Swett '37, have been working during the fall in an attempt to adjust bewildered students to their environment or vice versa...
...wheeled, 7-ton contraption over the same course to an official 311.42 m.p.h. Said he: "It was a hell of a run and I don't mean that profanely." During his second lap, on which he averaged 317 m.p.h. his goggles came loose and he had to adjust them while he drove with one hand...
...wars and social revolutions, from the ever increasing numbers of biological and mental inferiors who are anti-social and criminalistic. If the generations to come can be emancipated from these worthless and deleterious elements, it will be a comparatively simple matter to perfect social and political institutions and to adjust human relations to a reasonable harmony...