Word: existed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps a still more valid cause is that most professors, even in the most elementary of courses, presuppose on the part of their students, an interest which does not exist. For that reason, they feel that they are fulfilling their duties if they retail the facts, in no matter how cold and dreary a manner. For graduate students, already deeply engrossed in their work, this assumption may apply, but as concerns undergraduates it is a serious fallacy...
...University. He disapproves the administrative policy for enlargement of the graduate schools. He asks for more consideration of the undergraduate body, and less attention to the schools for advanced study. In defense of the administration, it must be said that the graduate and undergraduate schools are symbolic. Neither could exist without the other. Men of the highest calibre would not be content to teach elementary courses without the resources of the graduate schools. We should lose their services. The greatness of Yale lies not in the superficialities acquired with the college or Sheff degrees. To keep pace with other universities...
...sadder way class Day is the final gathering of the Senior class before it ceases to exist as an undergraduate body. As such it is the final culmination of all that Harvard has meant through four long years...
...part in many heated discussions about Madame Sans Gene and, knowing you have put many minds at ease in the past, I trust you will be able to enlighten me on this subject. Is there any accent on the last "e" in Gene? And did such a person ever exist or was she merely a fictitious character? I have digested dictionaries. Lives of Napoleon" and Encyclopedias and still remain in total darkness...
...Other advantages which the Pennsylvania crews have had are much more favorable weather conditions on the Schuylkill than exist on the Charles, and the experience of more racing. They have two crews which are about equal, and they have raced them frequently against each other. Yet, in spite of all this, they didn't outsprint Uss. That pleased me more than anything else...