Word: hopeless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...particular condition of the seminary during the latter part of Chauncey's presidency was critical and apparently hopeless. Its buildings were ruinous and almost irreparable, the President was aged and the number of scholars short of what they had been in former days. All its efficient funds did not amount to one thousand pounds; without a new building its situation was desperate. The political difficulties of the colony precluded any expectation of pecuniary aid from the General Court, who, in their best estate, had never been characterized by a disposition to give aid in money. The liberality of individuals...
According to this plan, Harvard will attempt to inoculate students with the habit of independent reading and intensive study apart from courses to prevent the after-the-degree forgetfulness of "intellectual and spiritual growth." To Dr. Conant it seems "a hopeless task to provide a complete and finished liberal education suitable to this century by four years of college work." In other words, he believes that "the only worth-while liberal education today is one which is a continuing process throughout life." Accordingly, by this "extra- curricular study" the university at Cambridge will instill that educational virus which alone retains...
True, Aglipay was in arms against the U. S. Government, but when he became convinced that the contest was hopeless he surrendered. Since his surrender he has loyally upheld the administration. After William Howard Taft retired from the Governorship, he accepted the position of honorary President of the Independent Church. All through his administration he was a friend of Archbishop Aglipay...
...Armstrong, whom Louis says everyone calls "Alpha", a good-looking and trim young woman who sat in the dressing room throughout the interview, seemed to think this discussion of Louis' figure very amusing, and her final comment was "Oh, he's hopeless...
...geometry paper graded 33 by a College Board reader was referred to the committee on hopeless failures which rated it 67. College Board examiners are not alone in their capriciousness. A history paper scored 60 by University of Toronto examiners, minus 10 more points for misspelling, was copied over without the misspellings, scored 70 on the rereading. In a one-year course at Cornell, the same students got widely different marks from the two instructors who taught in successive semesters. In an experiment at the University of Wisconsin the same teachers gave different marks when they regraded their own papers...