Word: adrift
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...block was described in the inscription as the last hope of five survivors who were adrift in an open boat on August second, approximately 1000 miles southeast of Boston. The message, signed by five sets of initials, requested that Donald Murchie of Dedham be notified...
...must help us. You must gently steer the blessed-fool reading public away from puffery and quackery and prurient prudery. You must stand for good English. Not for me, you understand. I am settled, fixed and determined in my way, forward I hope, but not adrift. But I love the venturers who are seeking something real and better...
Undeniable as these statements may be, year after year the younger students are cast adrift in their fields of concentration without the inspiration of great minds to draw them on. This year it is worse than usual, for the catalogue restrictions have kept pace with the addition of new courses. The situation is extremely unfortunate...
...modified it and has done so excellently is evidently unrecognized by Mr. Darrow. The present tutorial system does much to make up for the handicap under which Harvard is placed. American preparation is adapted by it to English educational theories. Oxford goes to the extreme of casting its men adrift in the libraries of England with only a tutor to guide their footsteps. Harvard has borrowed the tutor, but finds it necessary to retain course instruction to meet the needs of the average preparatory and high school graduate. If Mr. Darrow but knows it, Harvard is doing all that...
...they were not granted the same consideration as upperclassmen, since they, more than any others, find it difficult to adjust themselves to the requirements of their college studies. But their case is different. So great is the change from secondary school to college that many Freshmen are left hopelessly adrift and need to have their difficulties brought early to the notice of the authorities and themselves...