Word: hards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...student of English, however good his record, goes through College continually under suspicion. The professors are terrified by the fear that undergraduates will concentrate in literature because it is a snap. They throw overboard all principles of sane scholarship and intelligent teaching in order to make their courses hard. Fearing intelligence, because it sometimes passes examinations without working, they place emphasis on unimportant facts. The general examination of 1929 shows the disastrous effects of such a theory. There is no question longer than twenty minutes, and all these little problems deal with trivialities, such as Swift's verse, or Charles...
...Chequers" Stanley Baldwin conferred with die-hard Tory leaders but decided to place his resignation before the King...
...highly publicized figure of the election was hard-hitting, dry-voting Lady Nancy Astor. At the end of a campaign that included everything from singing the national anthem to physical combat, she was returned to Parliament by the narrow squeak of 211 votes. Worn out by weeks of campaigning, she wept as the ballots were being counted and said: "I'm going back to Westminster anyway, and not back to Virginia as my opponents predicted. Thank God, I have never truckled to the liquor interests...
...France. In the Roland Garros Stadium courts near Paris the international hard court championships were concluded last week...
...alumni it is not so easy to speak with assurance. It is hard for any university to ignore entirely the strident voices of some of the men of the nineties and the 'oughts and the 'teens. But it has been proved often enough that a small group of graduates may cripple any program of an institution by unintelligent opposition. Princeton and Harvard must continue to appear slightly absurd as long as some of their adherents persist in the mistaken zeal of self-righteousness...