Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...education in colleges, since it comes so late in the development of the boy and girl is often inefficacious. But despite this fact, statistics show that there are fewer divorces in marriages among students of co-educational universities than in the case of ordinary one's. Maladjustments are less frequent. How much more valuable would be the right sort of co-education in preparatory schools. The idea, as being developed in several schools notably the Cambridge school in Weston has already shown signs of success. It may be that the results of these experiments will have a profound effect...
...matters pertaining to the behavior of students in public there is one point which, aside from all general warnings, merits frequent repetition. When a student enters Harvard he takes upon himself the responsibility of conducting himself like a Harvard man at all times. Because of the peculiar reputation of Harvard's name any act committed by one of the students bears a tremendous news value in the metropolitan press. Any story pertaining to the University is immediately overated merely because it concerns Harvard; it is a delight for most city editors to attach a riot story for instance...
...Sunday evening was a little slow and quite flavorless for certain blithe spirits. A little group of five fortified itself with frequent passings of the bottle and then took niblicks, spades, and pickaxes and went out looking for the fraternity snow statuary. Men had put hours of devoted effort into creating fragile dazzling white figures, with every shading of form, illumination and position carefully planned to create an effect of maximum beauty. That meant nothing to the forthright five; they smashed them all: Theta Chi's lovely Snow Girl, the majestic statue of Elcazar on the Green...
Ministers should make large and frequent use of the radio. They should feel free to say anything they like so long as they do not slander or libel. If they offend some hearers, stations are many and dials are easy to twiddle. But-"The radio, as administered by the present Federal Commission, is a class agency, a political agency, and an agency without any real freedom...
...occurs to me to add that the College Houses could and should be vitalized and justified by having such speakers as these, frequent guests there...