Word: fitfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...student finds that the field which he has chosen does not fit him because of a change in his plans or is not as interesting as he expected, he may apply to the committee for a change of field or for a new plan of study which will combine the elements of two departments such as History and Literature now does. Under such a plan the work would not be reduced but it is possible that it would be changed so as to avoid the general examination. The committee, if it considered the application favorably, would recommend the special plan...
...Little by little the center of their interest would shift from courses to tutorial work, so that by Senior year the top men in this group might conceivably be allowed complete exemption from course requirements. The system should be as flexible as possible, since its purpose would be to fit the needs not of types, but of highly developed individuals...
...President to ask his fellow citizens to give him such a sum for disposal as he saw fit was without precedent. To most citizens, however, it did not come as a shock. Most of them would undoubtedly prefer to trust him, rather than Congress, with $4,000,000,000. What made that one casually sensational sentence historic was that, if Congress gives the President what he wants, the centre of authority in the U. S. will shift far from the point where it has reposed for a century and a half. In the long range picture no other part...
Immediately Publisher Marshall set out to make the Times a fit background for himself. He installed a gold-braided doorman with "Times" across his visor, put all the art staff in smocks with "Times" across the fronts, had the building painted pale grey outside, white-&-tan within, had large gilt eagles painted on all doors...
...athletic directors of the other colleges in the east, but by the chief executives as well. He is a gentleman and a sportsman who has made the most of his opportunities in a position which could be termed anything but a bed of roses. He has seen fit to appoint Dick Harlow head coach at Harvard and from the standpoint of getting one who knows football from the ground up and can get the most out of the boys playing it he could not have made a better selection...