Word: bent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...total number of men admitted to Stillman Infirmary or sent in town to the Peter Bent Brigham, Massachusetts General, or the Beth Israel Hospitals, where all serious cases are sent from the Infirmary, will probably top 1800 before the year is out. Last year the total number...
...brushed aside a tousled, screeching head bent upon chalking the sidewalk, the Vagabond observed to himself how Byron Piccup had made into a college-worthy art are what most men had always considered an instinct...
...exceedingly poor. The fact that fifty per cent of these men have had less than three years of teaching experience, and over thirty percent are enrolled in graduate school study, seems to be one of the principal reasons for this unfortunate situation. Thus the University seems to be bent on crucifying the Freshman Class on the standards of Graduate School students, who need employment to tide them over their early years. If the administration continues to thus sacrifice its undergraduates by neglecting to improve the instruction given in its elementary courses, it is playing a dangerous game of drakes...
...such a Council?" Naturally, it is the more eager concentrators who form such a body, and it somehow works out that the more eager are the more radical. There is thus danger that the Council may gather together a fervid little knot of propagandists, eager for the Call, and bent on missionary work among the economic heathens. Any insistence on generally unaccepted doctrines would be bound to alienate great numbers of potentially valuable followers, and would end in futility. The harder but wiser course is for the Council to set out on a broad program of stimulating interest and carrying...
...trophy planned as a memorial to Newell Bent, Jr. '33, who died in January 1936 in attempting to scale Acongagua, highest peak of the Andes, will be the prize when the first Pan-American downhill skiing championship is held in Chile this July...