Word: hopelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Business School's whole examination policy. As it is now, except for one course on Managerial Reports, the final exam mark and the course grade are usually one and the same. There is some attempt to count class recitation, but the professors themselves admit this is slightly hopeless. The classes are so large and the material so vast that very few students get called on more than twice a term. Labs and homework are nothing more than borderline factors. Consequently, the student goes into finals realizing that everything depends on his performance. If he happens to miss the point...
...diseased men are treated with sulfathiozol, which usually removes danger of contagion within three days, clears it up within five days. Obstinate infections get further treatment, may be released if hopeless. Syphilitics are not being drafted: their cure is more difficult. One reason for inducting gonorrheal cases: in World War I many men tried to escape the draft by deliberately contracting gonorrhea...
...post," he told Author Pearson. One such love affair he conducted for years with Actress Ellen Terry. He had no sex life until he was 29, when he was "virtually raped" by Jenny Patterson, one of his mother's singing pupils. But he decided sex relations were "hopeless as a basis for permanent relations...
...putting them into the nearest bomb crater"; the lone repairman at Cebu who fixed their boat and calmly stayed behind to fight the Japs alone. And they think of some 60 men who were once members of their squadron-how their numbers were whittled down by days of incessant, hopeless action...
There are some traditions that no one is going to miss. Coasting through college on three C's and a D is out for the duration. But the serious student who wants to get a liberal education in the humane tradition is on an almost hopeless quest. In the sciences he is perhaps worst off: the physics department has been converted into a technical school for the Signal Corps, and budding Einsteins are nipped before they can begin to bloom. That this step was necessary makes it no less unhappy. In the social sciences, specific war service programs are taking...