Word: chores
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Knob Creek on the Louisville-Nashville pike. Young Abe walks four miles to school, a one-room school with no windows, a "blab" school where you say your lessons to yourself out loud until time to recite to the Irish Catholic teacher. At home little Abe is chore-boy, toting water, billets, ashes and the things for beer-making. He rides (without pants, he's a "shirttail boy") the horse drawing the "bull-tongue" plow; he tends his father's stallion and brood mares. Sometimes it is warm and there are good "vittles"; sometimes it is cold as a dead...
Positions as monitor and proctor for the University also were popular, 158 men serving as monitors and 85 as proctors. The Employment Office placed 74 students as tutors or tutor-companions, 64 as clerks, and 36 as chore men, while 34 secured typewriting work through the efforts of the office. There were also 22 student guides, 21 ushers, 17 chauffeurs, 15 musicians, and 13 waiters. Other students were employed as camp counselors during the summer, as salesmen and boys' club leaders, as stenographers and farmers, as coaches and translators, as janitors and librarians, and in a large variety of other...
...Class Ode, by Paul Rice Doolin, is a good chore well done, and there is no particular fault to be found with Mr. King's "Comradeship," in the June number. The Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize Poem, by A. Morley Dobson, shows much skill in the difficult sestina, but far too little depth of judgement. In more senses than one, it is simple to uphold one side of the Flume controversy, and only to rhapsodize, not judge, or analyze the question. The normal reaction from this sort of thing has been expressed by an undergraduate some months ago, in the Harvard...
...attention of students to the most reliable sources of information and teaching them how to check up newspaper articles. The student could then be left to choose his own reading, and the course would become a liberal education in itself and a source of pleasure rather than a weekly chore. The College should give half-credit for the work each year and allow undergraduates to take "Contemporaneous History" in four successive years...
...conferences quite as much as for tests and to just as little purpose. The idea that the tutor stands for a real liberal education rarely enters the head of one of his students. Hastily prepared for, lackadasically attended, and quickly over, these tutorial meetings have become merely an added chore amid the routine of themes and reports...