Word: detrimental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...initiative and thus occupy a position reserved by the Personnel Department for some other applicant. If the individual takes this course, he places the department in the position of assisting an inferior man to the exclusion of an abler one. The result in either case acts to the detriment of the individual, the University and the undergraduate body as a whole...
...method of direction employed at Purdue University by Mr. J. E. Walters, Director of Personnel. His aim is not primarily to at square pegs into round holes, but to enable students to develop their personalities while in college, so as not to emerge as misfits to the detriment of themselves or their future employers...
...together: and since this is no very serious matter, either, we are never required to depart from the tone established with such precision in the early scenes. M. Clair's control of his craft is sure enough to permit him an almost improvisatory lightness in places without the slightest detriment to the narrative, and the consistent use of tinsel scenery, paper flowers, and music box accompaniment is quite in keeping with the fantasy of the whole...
...foreign student important enough to academic society to warrant letting him loose among possible jobs to the detriment of the unprotected American citizen? Certainly even those who fell most remotely international cannot gainsay the importance of the leavening influence in international relations of this year by year interchange of students. This influence should surely increase in years to come...
...General William D. Connor, superintendent at West Point, and Rear Admiral Thomas C. Hart, superintendent at Annapolis, conferred in Philadelphia and came to a three-year agreement. Said they: "Faced with a situation under which post-season football games are repeatedly played very late in the season, to the detriment of academic work at both institutions, the Military and Naval Academies have decided to arrange a three-year series of athletic contests. The arrangement is made without change in existing policies, under which each institution fixes its own eligibility rules. . . . The first contest of the series will be a football...