Word: handed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yardlings who have, as schoolboys, indulged in extensive publication activity will find the CRIMSON a welcome extension of their interests into the field of college journalism. On the other hand, Freshmen who have never before written a newspaper story are just as welcome...
...other hand, we cannot subscribe to your purely destructive criticism which would accuse us of underhanded motives and pass off the entire poll as valueless. The purposes of the poll are two-fold: to sound out student opinion on Harvard's attitude toward war and peace; to determine what agreement there is on the HSU program. If there is disagreement on those points there is simply no danger of our making a pretense of unanimity. The charge of a sinister attempt to pass off our opinion as that of the majority is unfounded and is certainly not proved by your...
...arrested by the somewhat startling headline "Harvard Murphys Get $360 Each." It is a curious sort of scholarship, and if I were a Murphy I think I might resent it. No Murphy needs a hand-picked education, an appointed college or any other special favors whatsoever. Under proper leadership and direction, the Murphys do just as well as any other man. As a matter of fact, in my day along the Charles my closest friend was named Lambert Murphy. I imagine he would have scoffed at any such niggling subsidy as $360. On nights when he could manage to work...
...competition the men of Finland are noted for the intensity of their efforts--plugging, determined efforts rather than competition of the flash-in-the-pan sort. They are characterized as patriotically inspired to victory but on the other hand are reputed to be hard-headed, reluctant losers...
...Many thinkers besides Stephen Leacock have complained that education, is "catting up" life, that repetition and waste study are becoming a farce. Three years, for example, are too often spent on French and German where two, if efficiently taught, would be equally complete. The problem of Plan C goes hand in hand with a thorough inspection of scholastic curriculum. If progress is to be made in college admission requirements, all down the line of high school subjects a serious critical revision is needed to shake off the paralyzing grip of tradition...