Word: crediteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impression is that very few sophomores and a great many juniors are so occupied with getting grades in courses that they have very little time for educating themselves. The course system with its emphasis on closely specified grades and definite units of credit definitely prolongs the worst evils of high school well on into what should be a University career. Many men never really get over the desire to be told what to do next-and worse-to have some grade put upon their every attempt at a separate work. I feel that great progress could be made...
Eliot House swamped Adams House 36-4 in the opening game of the winter season of House basketball yesterday. Richard Inglis, Jr. '33 of Eliot House was the high scorer of the day with 13 points to his credit...
...minds, not only in dulling their appreciation for originality, but in delaying the action of that originality until three or four of their most significant mental years have been wasted in fruitless research. Against that influence, the Fellows will be guarded by a restriction which denies them any course credit; their work is to emphasize productive originality, and they are to be stimulated thereto by contact with each other and with the University's most brilliant minds...
...Reynolds stated that he had had "no freedom from business responsibility" since he was 15, that he wished to spend his last years in California with his wife. He will continue as a director but will resign as chairman of the Chicago Clearing House and of bank-bailing National Credit Corp., now entirely supplanted by the R. F. C. A portly, white-haired gentleman, George Reynolds once declined President Taft's invitation to become Secretary of the Treasury. As his successor La Salle Street talks of conservative Stanley Field, now chairman of Continental Illinois' executive committee, British-born...
Everything irons out in the end. The wrong people get the credit, no one lives perfectly happy ever after: that, Author Nicolson implies, is the world's way. England, diplomacy, good intentions have somehow muddled through again...