Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are too many brief reviews. I feel it would be better for the reader, at least, if there were only one or two, with the reviewer given space to move around in and to argue his points. Harry Brown is confused by T. S. Eliot's last play, and waits for elucidation by "such people as Mr. Ransom or Mr. Tate or Mr. Blackmur...
...clock the Junior Varsity race gets under way. With positions in the shell unsettled, the Jayvees eked out a slim six-foot victory over a game but lighter third crew in the time-trials Thursday. While far better than last year's Junior Varsity, its spirit and power are handicapped by the sloppy form of certain individual oarsmen...
Some of the most flagrant violations of ethical tutoring here at Harvard arise from commercialization. Granted that these practices amount to cheating, the worst kind of cut-throat competition among the tutors results in making these ever more dubious. Each tutor must go his rival one better...
...always cooperated better," he said. "And in New Haven I understand Yale has been far more sympathetic toward the city's problems...
...Harvard. College standards are inseparably locked to those of the schools, and complementing. President Conant's desire to increase the geographical distribution of undergraduates is the need to improve possible college material in rural areas. It is unfortunate that because of their paucity applicants from Arkansas have a better chance of admission than those from Pennsylvania. To make its scope more national, Harvard depends on higher standards among Southeastern and Southwestern states. Equality of education throughout America is a boon to the colleges as well as the local communities, and equality depends upon the passage of the Harrison Bill...