Word: fitfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unreliable since the slightest variation of the turntable from set speed (78 revolutions per min.) changes the pitch. The veracity of tuning-forks depends upon atmospheric and temperature constancy. Dr. Haselbrunner's convention would put a stop to an occasional practice of recording laboratories, namely, varying the pitch to fit the peculiar abilities of recording artists, a practice distressing to persons with a sense of absolute pitch...
...stored in the Federal Reserve Bank at Atlanta. In 1925, largely as a result of a political feud between Clark Howell, publisher of the Atlanta Constitution and Political Boss Hollins Randolph, Sculptor Borglum was dismissed for incompetence, lack of progress. Sculptor Borglum destroyed his clay models in a fit of pique, was promptly indicted as a felon by an Atlanta grand jury. He removed to South Dakota, where he undertook to chisel the face of Mount Rushmore into 400-ft. statues of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt, and embellish the whole with a 500-word history...
...having come to Harvard from all over the United States, men of different capacities, aspirations and beliefs, having had different advantages and different experiences, all entering the University presumably for a purpose. In some cases the purpose is a very vague one--to get a general education to fit one for a life of which he knows little or nothing; in others, the field is starred and the student is looking for special preparation. In those who have no serious purpose, but who look upon college as a place merely to have a good time, we are not particularly interested...
What, then, is the primary object of a college education? "It is," says President Hibben of Princeton, "to fit each student most adequately to perform his proper functions as an essential part of the social structure in which he is to live and move and have his being." It is, is it not, to equip young men to play their full part in the life of their several communities, to give them a keener appreciation of the duties of citizenship, to enable them to contribute something of value to the well-being of their fellowmen. It teaches the obligations...
...fit men for useful service in the world, then, is Harvard's goal; to equip them with the faculties necessary to stand on their own feet, to fight the battle of life, to meet unexpected situations, to overcome obstacles that are regarded as insurmountable. Someone defined education as "what remains behind when you have forgotten all that you have learned." What is it that remains behind? It is your ability to think, to diagnose, your creating power, your will, your ability to concentrate, your mental equipment gained from training, study, and experience...