Word: devotee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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For something more than two weeks a year, a small estate on the Thames River, just above New London, Connecticut, is busier than the bar at a class reunion. Here, in complete seclusion, two dozen Harvardmen devote their waking hours to the achieving of the one supremely traditional object of...
Kanner's point is well taken, and jibes with current views on the effects of emotional barrenness often found in homes where parents are too busy or too uninterested to devote time and affection to children . . .
He wished to devote all his time to literature, yet yearned for the satisfactions of conventional family life. He thought of his "possible future wife and possible children," only to realize that his ill health (he died of tuberculosis at 40) would prevent him from having either. "It seems so...
There is still another contradictory element in Harvard's policy. A few years ago when men were returning from the services, Harvard was eager to grant any and all credit that could conceivably be deduced from service records. We're all familiar with the credit given for basic training. Essentially...
Other students devote themselves, equally barrenly, insofar as learning is concerned, to their studies. Such students, Stephen Leacock has observed, "all go humping together over the hurdles with the professor chasing them with a set of 'tests' and 'recitations,' 'marks' and 'attendance,' the whole apparatus obviously copied from the time...