Word: evens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fully agree with Peter Black '42 that the main reason why the tutoring schools have so many clients lies in the fact that in a multitude of courses no time is allowed for reviewing before an examination. Even worse in some instances: for History I at mid-years, besides all the reviewing we were meant to do, we had to cover a staggering three week assignment within the last fortnight before the examination. In England, both in preparatory schools and varsities, we were always given a "revising-hours" and in consequence we registered less cases of failure than...
Princeton has had success with its Student Tutoring Association, and according to the Princetonian the faculty "are wholly behind the S. T. A., even to the point where individual professors advise student tutors...
Holcombe declared that it isn't possible for government to appease business, and even if it were possible, it isn't desirable. These desiring a change of government will persuade business to demand a change of government, and business will do it rather than be "appeased." Appeasement would be undesirable, since it would mean the beginning of a period of fatal speculative activity...
...melancholy and grimness of some passages and the profound nature of the work as a whole, the optimistic Protestant conception of a blessed eternity for the righteous is the essence of its spirit. The terror of the Day of Judgment is followed by the defeat of Death, and even such despair as that of the second movement, "Behold, all flesh is as the grass," gives way to rejoicing in the happy fate of "the redeemed of the Lord...
Says Anor about her father: he has "a marverlas degestion," laughs at his own jokes, "is very fond of taking a bath as his exercise," can't write without smoking. His hobbies are playing with candle wax, coloring picture books, "smoking even...