Word: crutches
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...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...
Railmen's Insurance. Although failing to fashion a crutch for the staggering railroads (see col. 1), Congress last week passed a bill taking railway employes out of the unemployment insurance systems of the States and putting them under a Federal system handled by the Railroad Retirement Board. Benefits: $1.75 to $3 per day for up to 80 days of idleness per year. Source of revenue: a 3% payroll tax on wages up to $300 per month...
...telephone their lawyers. A good punch on the nose of one or the other of the two men would have settled the leadership of the Rhode Island Decocracy more quickly than the present litigation, which will drag out for years and leave the victorious merely the man whose legal crutch contains the smallest percentage of rubber...