Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cantor told the audience that he had quite a trip here. When he left home, his wife asked him where he was going. He replied that he was headed for Harvard. "You'd better finish grammar school first," he was told...
...most foolish things education has done is to force dozens of students through school and college without once telling them how to study. The instructors say, "Aren't you getting this? Well, you had better spend more time on it." The solution to difficulties in learning does not lie in stretching the twenty-four hour day. It would be more worthwhile instead to seek why the difficulties exist. Why is it that sometimes when one sees a certain word in a language course for a fleeting moment it sticks firmly in one mind, while others, curse them, are seen repeatedly...
...will be a better team than last years," declared Skip Stahley yesterday, as his Yardling hoopmen went through a stiff workout in preparation for today's game against the M. I. T. first year...
...that keeps it moving, moving, moving; Comic Jimmy Savo contributes wild-eyed dimwit mischief; Fat Girl Wynn Murray, dishpan antics and Amazonian sex threats; Lorenz Hart, brash, bawdy, witty lyrics (best line: She was so chaste that it made her very nervous); Rodgers, a gay, bright lilting score, never better than it is in This Can't Be Love, Sing for Your Supper...
...soloists were conspicuously better than last year and they must be thanked for a skillful rendering of the taxing solo quartets. The uncertainty of last spring's performance was replaced by a balanced rendition although some times one had the impression that the demands of the music were beyond the capabilities of nay singer...