Word: backing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That there are students capable of tutoring well may be seen from two things. First is the Undergraduate Faculty, where the tutoring must have at least enough to it to keep the tutees coming back, although many of them are hard pressed for time. Second is the even more significant fact that many students, unable to find legitimate tutoring jobs, have gone to work for the tutoring schools. There they lost any personal interest and pride in their pupils. They were restricted principally to giving reviews just prior to exams to students who had by then lost any desire...
...Young, last year's stroke of the Big Red, has been moved back to six. This would not be so remarkable but for the fact that he is light and therefore a strange...
Grover Whalen had no difficulty selling $17,500,000 worth of concessions. But wooing exhibitors was harder work. Nonetheless, he managed to land $30,000,000 worth of entries. When the automobile tycoons hung back, he played General Motors, Ford and Chrysler off against each other so skilfully that he wound up with lavish exhibits from all three. While Heinz held out for a pickle-shaped building, Grover Whalen signed up so many other food exhibitors that Heinz was finally glad to accept half of another, more prosaic building...
...argues that only 500,000 of his hoped-for visitors are expected from Europe, that the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 succeeded in the face of a war, and that anyhow there is a strong nonwar omen in the fact that foreign exhibitors have not been holding back...
...organize a student's work for him free, thus driving the commercial house out of business. But that would simply be a transference and enlargement of the evil. The students might "gang-up" on the cream schools and declare a boycott, but that would only throw the organizing job back upon themselves where it belongs. I for one am firmly convinced that anyone capable of entering Harvard College is capable of carrying the load if he has an interest in doing...