Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Violent opposition to progressive ideas brings them all the more into the lime-light, and although all new things must face a long period of controversy, birth-control knowledge cannot help but become more general in a future era of increasing economic pressure as well as greater freedom of speech...
...were carried out. The lawns adjoining were littered with the bodies of the dead and dying, all yellow from the gas. Rescue squads worked over them with pulmotors. Only those who received immediate oxygen treatment survived. One man who had escaped said, "The gas didn't bother me. Help the others who are dying." Five minutes later he collapsed and died on the way to a hospital. An X-ray salesman who had been in the building, although warned to go to a hospital, insisted on helping the rescuers. He soon gave up, presented himself, laughing, at a hospital...
...activity of engineers in their drilling for hard pan back of Gore Hall indicates the approach of the House Plan in the shape of brick and mortar. Harvard men, however they may feel about the desirability of the Plan, can not help realizing that the University's social experiment is no longer a paper theory. Unit number one will shortly arise a reality...
...fully aware of the tremendous obstacles in the way of such a program of reconstruction. Yet it is not economically impossible. More efficient use of even the present facilities would help much. Few realize the amount of time, money, energy and eyesight now wasted by professors in preparing and dictating lectures, by section leaders in conducting large and cumbersome discussion groups, by readers--those most pitiable and degenerate academic parasites--in grading blue books. But even though this dead loss were turned to good account, more instructors and tutors would be necessary. Intimate personal contact between students and faculty...
...conceded to have one of the strongest teams in the country and comparative scores give it a slight edge on the Harvard netmen. The Elis defeated Williams, 8 to 1, and the Purple should furnish no stronger opposition to the Crimson racquet wielders, so that today's match may help to forecast the outcome of Saturday's contest...