Word: helpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these tracks in the sand did not make themselves. Much of the blame can justly be eased onto the feeble and barren instruction which the University frequently offers. Too many professors and instructors are--what is worse than incapable--disinterested in students and unwilling to help solve their problems. Too many courses are simply a chaos of information, disconnected and illogical, which only extraordinary minds can organize. Unusual minds can; others are forced across Massachusetts Avenue...
...corrosive influence on Harvard's educational standards." The Student Council was pulling its punches when it made this statement two years ago. The same thing should have been shouted in four-letter monosyllables. Once upon a time, tutoring was understood to be a type of legitimate aid, granted to help a slow but honest student. Now, at Harvard, it is defined as a method of passing courses without working, without thinking, without learning...
...Thomas Edmund Dewey made headlines with vote-appeal for Labor last week by arresting 14 bullyboys employed by private detective agencies as guards and strikebreakers in contravention of a year-old State law prohibiting such agencies from hiring help with police records...
...acceptable are "contests and offers which encourage children to enter strange places and to converse with strangers in an effort to collect numbers of box tops or wrappers," or phony appeals such as: "By sending in a box top, you will help Widow Jones pay off the mortgage...
...dead in Omaha, still flickering in Seattle; in the talk of the loggers on the Skidroad at Yesler Way, in the logging camps, the history of the wobblies and the Weyerhaeuser fortune, in the remark of a Seattle housewife: "I have got to go over to Olympia tomorrow to help put pressure on the governor...