Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until something is done to make Congress and the War Department become more interested in seeing that we get a fair deal instead of using us to sway public opinion to their side, we will never feel that doing a good job is worth the effort...
...last week that effort ended in failure. The President decided that there was no formula-at least not within what he considers the limits of the democratic process. In a fireside chat he told the nation it would have to solve the problem itself through collective bargaining (see below). Soon he discovered that he was deep in another kind of failure-the nation was remarkably cool toward the kind of self-reliance he advised...
...forum will be the first major effort of the Undergraduate Committee on the General Education Report in its program to publicize the Report's proposals in the College...
...major difficulty that confronts both tutors and students at present is that a vaguely defined tutorial objective is in competition with graded courses. Naturally, the student will devote whatever proportion of his effort he thinks necessary to getting the highest possible marks before he concerns himself with tutorial. Yet since the whole value of tutorial as a special method of instruction lies in its flexibility and in the avoidance of marked quizzes and exams, we must not convert it into another course by applying course ratings...
...kindness, Spalding is just too old to handle the intricate rhythmical phraseology of Bach. And last Saturday, Koussevitzky gave a surprisingly careless and thoughtless performance of the Mozart Symphony in D Major ("Paris"). There was vehement distortion of dynamic effect in both Allegros; the Andantino last continuity through the effort to make it pretty...