Word: expectancy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's Medical School, in the U. S. topflight with Columbia's, Cornell's, Johns Hopkins', may expect a friendly eye from President Conant, long a frequent visitor to its laboratories. Failures are rare among its hand-picked students, limited to 125 per class. It has all Boston's hospitals for laboratory, most topnotch Boston doctors on its staff. The Medical School plumes itself on Elliott Carr Cutler, 45 (brain surgery); Walter Bradford Cannon, 62 (physiology); Hans Zinsser, 55 (bacteriology); Varaztad Hovannes Kazanjian, 54 (plastic surgery...
...hope and expect," said Edwin G. Boring, professor of Psychology, in an interview with the CRIMSON, "that the complete split between Psychology and Philosophy will come about in a few weeks...
...forgot that their feudal privileges were merely payment for their services of protection and consolation and continued to demand those privileges long after they had ceased to do their duty. Society today is little tolerant of useless shibboleths. If we demand our privileges and refuse our duties we cannot expect so long a shrift as was granted the "ancien regime," and we can only hope that our fall may be, not less sudden, but less fatal...
...subject. The scientific method of minute research has only a subordinate place here, and calls for no great ability. Yet the arts have been striving for years to imitate the sciences and have filled Widener with their petty lucubrations upon dead themes. This is the second fallacy, to expect of the arts a type of scholarship proper only to science, to require this scholarship from young men, and thereby to discourage them in that leisurely, deep, and sincere study of their field which might bring forth works of real profit to mankind...
...feel," he began, "that my distinguished friend of years, the eminent President of the United States, who is such an honor to his country and glory to civilization, has fallen into error. . . . We cannot expect the President of the United States, merely because he holds the office, always to be accurate. Of him, too, if I recall the Latin, it may be said, Quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus. Or, as our Senators schooled in the classics would translate-Sometimes even good Homer himself nods...