Word: hardings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most Freshmen, academics will be a hard grind from now until after midyear examinations, next February. Family, faculty advisors, and upperclassmen friends all say "Make a good impression. Work hard now if you never do again." And obedient Yardlings--too many of them--languish long afternoons and evenings in Boylston Hall, a little awed by the lecture method of teaching, more than a little worried by the inevitable unfinished History 1 assignments, sincerely terrified by the prospect of November and Midyear examinations. Most Freshmen, in other words, are too conscientious...
...seeking to regain his self-respect while England is avenging the murder of General Gordon no longer proves to be very exciting, or even interesting, fare. Whether it is the slow-paced direction or the European war that detracts from the glory of the Sudan campaign and Omdurman is hard to tell. It is probably a combination of both, with the former chiefly at fault. Although the photography is excellent, too great an emphasis on it makes the action interminably slow. At times the audience is treated to something like a travelogue of the Nile region in the midst...
Doctors have battled epidemics of infantile paralysis for 50 years, but they still know practically nothing about the cause & cure of that dread disease. In trying to come to grips with poliomyelitis, they still clutch at brilliant, fantastic-sounding clues hit on from time to time by hard-working bacteriologists. Last week, at the Manhattan meeting of the International Congress for Microbiology, two new clues turned...
...Denver, a 38-year-old corporation lawyer named Robert Lawrence Stearns. Dr. Norlin was trying to persuade his friend to come to his university as dean of its law school. Conservative Mr. Stearns, who had already made his mark in 17th Street, Denver's financial centre, was hard to persuade. At length Dr. Norlin exclaimed: "Better men than you have taken the vow of academic poverty!" Like many a better man before him, Mr. Stearns took the vow and went to Colorado...
When the University of Wisconsin lured chubby, Kansas-born John Steuart Curry to lecture farm boys on painting, art rivalry among U. S. colleges began to burn with a hard, gemlike flame. Other up-&-coming schools promptly hired their own resident artists, not to teach art but to talk it, to paint while undergraduates gaped and to give an occasional steer to hopeful dedicates. To the University of Georgia went Native Son Lamar Dodd. Dartmouth called home its own Paul Sample. Muralist Thomas Benton spurned all Missouri compromises during four stormy years teaching and painting at Kansas City...