Word: careful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is a noble ambition and a good thing. But it remains to be seen whether Freshmen will pay particular attention to the newly appointed Counselor. This will depend largely on the Counselor. He will have to use a maximum of care not to frighten sensitive Yardlings by appearing to be another banana skin on the royal road to history. He must be a father-confessor. He must be a patron saint. He must instruct his brood in what to read without letting them guess that it is assigned, and must conduct a serious class in an atmosphere...
...young women of the last two decades have taken to bringing so many stalwart sons into the world, sons of six foot and more, that there are more candidates for crews of Eight than the Newell can take care of. So they degraded me to the Weld, that is they graduated me backwards. But I kept up my pulls from the Cambridge Boatclub House for about six weeks after Newell and Weld had closed for the season. Yours truly C. R. Lanman...
...said, "It can best be done in fields like this which are heavily staffed in proportion to the number of students, and the rub will come in History, Government, and Economics. The popularity of the plan, may well be its death, but every effort will be made to take care of all men who turn...
Regardless of its wrong assumptions about President Conant's annual report, the Cambridge Union of Teachers has made one thing clear. No official report which will obviously attract wide publicity and public reaction should be issued without extra care that there are no ambiguous statements. Misinterpretation of any public state-men is easy, and twisting the meaning of veiled educational proclamations is easier. Although many in the University are still puzzled and confused by President Conant's report, few can possibly believe that by "limitation" Mr. Conant meant a drastic curtailment of enrollment in all colleges. Naturally...
...This is mistaking education for a commercial enterprise," proceeds the Union letter. "But what of the actual human needs of our whole democratic society? Great numbers of families receive little or no medical care. Many of them are ill housed, ill clothed, ill fed; many of them have only a caricature of an education. To meet the actual needs of our whole people it is perfectly clear that we are not producing nearly enough trained professionals...