Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rate, it seems evident that something is wrong with a system which makes no place for such men. All systems tend to become too rigid. Greater flexibility must be introduced to encourage the exceptional man. The dean's list and the provision that candidates for distinction may drop a course in their Senior year are steps in the right direction, but they are not enough. Seniors continue to answer the class questionnaire with the complaint that they need more time to think...
...even were you to spend four years here. Every month or two we turn a strange corner and find some hitherto unnoticed building filling up half the block and what is more, no one can ever tell us what it is or why it is there. Some genii could drop a new building, possibly a "School for Making Better Piano Keys", into the midst of the scattered campus, and the Freshman of today would scarcely have learned of its existence by his Senior year...
...Yard as a man in the lingerie department of Shepherd's. Today, she is still as much out of place here, but she is no longer rare. At the mere thought of rearing a family of daughters--even as a sort of distant foster-father--John Harvard would drop his book from his knees and lose his place forever. But what to do? It is unfortunate that students from Radcliffe are compelled to use Widener Library. It is a mistake to admit women students to Harvard courses. Radcliffe has its facilities and should make adequate provision for their instruction...
While the system of student advisors for Freshmen is excellent in theory, in practice it has been far from satisfactory. Few of the Senior advisors do more than see their advisees once, and extend a vague invitation to "drop around" whenever the Freshman may feel the need of advice. Many of the advisors fail to see their charges even once. The system was designed to serve as a more intimate link between the Freshman and the University than any faculty advisor could be, has become an obligation lightly assumed and seldom carried out on the part of the Senior...
...until we are able to see these plays in retrospect. Certainly it can not be called realism, that poetic articulation of the hero and that some what exotic and thoroughly ureal symbol of the moon. If the author sees fit to tumble houses in incoherent masses on his back-drop, if he chooses to induce the Russian quality of the Fates in the person of the garbage man, how can it be called realism? As for romanticism, and the sentiment that "The Moon is a Gong is a corking love story", there is still more room for wonder. To bring...