Word: crutches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days later at Hyde Park the President laughed heartily at his own remark. An unabashed lover of his own jokes, he said he had added the sentence to trap newspapermen into believing that he might seek a third term, that the effect was terrific, about as funny as a crutch, and that he had got a kick out of seeing the faces of the reporters present. Trouble with this, according to Raymond Clapper, was that few reporters had paid much attention, and that certainly few had fallen into the President's trap...
...have been tax quarrels and American Legion disturbances. But never yet in three centuries of Harvard have relations with Cambridge been in such an awful state of collapse. The current ruction has its background in the refusal of President Conant to give the city a hundred thousand dollar financial crutch. The action of the piece, however, is the unhappy participation of Harvard students in the memorial services at Weeks Bridge. As a result of this, there are signs of a storm...
...Harvard's standards and degrades her degree, it should be exterminated. If the tutoring is by Wolff, let the diploma be by Wolff, but not by Harvard. It is further undesirable because it destroys initiative and the will to honest toil; because it makes students lazily dependent upon a crutch they would not otherwise...
...essential, as shown by the small but consistent number of Law School graduates who spend a year at the Business School before leaving Cambridge. Yale men are not so lucky, for they have no business School. The cooperative plan made Harvard in effect a mere crutch for them. It is no wonder that the scheme was dropped by mutual consent...
Today schools which specialize in mechanical cramming methods advertise that "tutoring. . . is not a crutch for the lazy or unintelligent boy, but a constructive educational technique...