Word: fitfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general change in educational policy which started with the adoption of Mr. Lowell's plan of concentration and distribution, is based upon it but that plan marks the hint of departure from the then prevailing system of university instruction. Before its adoption every Harvard undergraduate selected sixteen courses to fit his intellectual taste and comfort, but today a student seldom makes a move without consulting a multiplicity of divisional and departmental requirements...
...tested by the merciless court of history that is to be made." "A nation," he said, "is a collection of people capable of self-government and cooperative enterprise in the national geographical theatre. It is not in the national interest to bring into the United States races that cannot fit into the pattern of national life and cooperate in discharging the necessary economic obligations. There is no advantage economic or otherwise by the sale of American goods abroad. The nation is enriched only by imports. Nationalism, quotas, and bounties are not perverse and ignorant concepts but come...
...Earth is so old that if its story were imagined as a 500-page book, recorded history would fit easily into the last word, the Christian era into the last letter. How is this known? The rate at which radioactive substances decay can be experimentally determined, and hence the age of radioactive rock can be told by the amount of decay observed. In Canada there are rocks that reveal an age of 1,230,000,000 years. Yet Earth could not be more than two or three times that old, because otherwise all the radium would have decayed to lead...
...public schools are getting themselves industriously, if not successfully, to fit youth to social existence and to stereotype reactions. To instill a certain tolerance and awareness of individuals, rather than of groups, might very well be considered an honorable goal of the University. Let it be granted that the average college student is lamentably ignorant of political problems in their detailed aspect, but most certainly he has heard of them if he reads only the newspapers. There are plenty of persons who know far too much about their immediate difficulties and are busily enlisting the support of their neighbors...
...unreconstructed pre-War statesman. He still believes the Allies won the War. He still believes in "victory." His defense of his own conduct as War Prime Minister of England is detailed but lucid; he writes trenchantly, aggressively, persuasively, in thoughts of one syllable. His book, when completed, will fit more neatly than most into the statesmen's monument to the Unknown Soldier...