Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...amount of time wasted by students because of unintelligent methods of study is doubtless enormous. The average undergraduate takes his work as doses of bitter medicine to be swallowed indiscriminately at more or less frequent intervals. Given a book, he dully reads the sentences, exercising on selection, but expecting that in some mysterious way he will absorb knowledge by the mere conning of the words. At a lecture he does not know how to condense points made into intelligible, concise statements suitable for notes. If the lecturer is not one who carefully labels all his topics and introduces them with...
...great and remarkable thing about this crisis in our country is the unity of opinion and feeling which has been exhibited by all parties and factions in this crisis," said Mr. Ratcliffe. This is the more remarkable because of the domestic trouble and bitter party strife existing just previous to the outbreak...
...Fitch outlined the groups as the complacent provincialists, the conscientious provincialists, and the bitter provincialists. The first are the private school men, who draw together naturally and unconsciously by reason of their similar training and vast interests in common; the second are the public school men, sprung from the so-called "middle classes," who hold off from the first group partly from disapproval and partly from disapproval and partly from inability to break social barriers; and the third, a group far greater than is generally realized, consists of those who have, by dint of extraordinary grit and determination, worked their...
...them, P. R. Mechem's "Burley knows a Cubist" alone is done with any particular skill. The style in description and conversation is light and the characters are cleverly sketched, although the close is distinctly weak. W. D. Crane in "Bully" and L. Wood, Jr., in "Short, Sweet and Bitter" do not succeed so well in following the difficult master. Both attempt what few people can accomplish skilfully in clearing up their mysteries by means of a letter, and both lack vigor and compactness. Whatever the merits and demerits of the stories, however, the Advocate has been unwise in selecting...
...subjects have supplied more lasting material for our esteemed fellow contemporary, the Lampoon, than the bitter contests in the libraries which precede the tests in the large reading courses. There is considerable humor in the picture of a University member--and this is a true story--hurrying to the Boston Public Library by taxicab to secure a copy of a dollar and a half book which he is required to read by the following morning. Yet nearly every undergraduate, although his remedy may have differed, has been in much the same plight...