Word: harmfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before scrapping any part of this system in the interests of the faculty, the College officials should note carefully whether some of the necessary adjustments of the teaching load cannot be made with less harm in the course system. There is offered in the College at present an altogether excessive amount of course instruction. While some departments, such as economics, have reduced their curriculum to the minimum number of courses required to cover the major sectors of the field, other departments remain glutted with a multitude of courses which are often as poor as they are superfluous...
...fertur" appeared, all statements were pegged on to "competent observers", and learned "on good authority." In other words, the Traveller must dilute its vitriol; but holds which are barred in six point type are legalized in ninety six point, where they may be expected to do the most harm, or the greatest service...
...attendance at classes, the recording of April and November grades, and the probation system. Whether the abolition of probation would serve any very useful purpose is questionable, but the other two reforms are eminently to be desired and, as the Dean points out, there can be no harm in experimenting with any of them for several years. Even more important are the proposals put forth for enhancing the position of the tutorial system. Mr. Hanford suggests that the number of required courses be further reduced, that more of the tutoring be done by experienced faculty members, and the tutorial work...
...really important. With a good memory, a certain amount of industry, a talent for choosing obscure fields and perverse points of view one may become a famous scholar and console oneself in the polemics of the study for one's realized inferiority in other fields. There is no harm in such scholarship; it is a pleasant and, to a certain degree, a necessary thing, but to place it first among the functions of a university is, I repeat, a betrayal of the trust placed in us by society. It is to mistake a privilege for an inalienable right, exactly...
...than five feet thick, with long, tapering neck and tail, a button head. It had rough skin with a dark ridge down its back. It had two appendages, possibly gills, and two or four propelling paddles or fins. Commander Gould wanted Parliament to pass a law protecting it from harm. Meantime more & more people were seeing the monster. "An abomination with a three-arched neck and a body four feet high" galumphed across the road in front of a motorist. Driving near the lake with his daughter, a Mr. W. Urwick Goodbody stared goggle-eyed through his field glasses...