Word: inferiors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From another bequest for the purchase of paintings, the Tate had bought some sculpture. In a third case, some funds left for the purchase of works by British artists had been spent on works by foreigners. A more serious charge: the Tate trustees had sold good paintings, bought inferior works at inflated prices...
...need more than its bi-weekly short papers. But they shy away from the more advanced English C, because they feel that it is aimed at the fledgling creative writer. Those few who do turn out for English C sometimes find themselves rejected because their work is of an inferior grade. this is especially true this year, when an instructor's illness has vastly over-loaded the remaining sections of the course, and even students with considerable talent have been rejected...
...never have heard of Horace.) . . . There is a definite resistance to erudition as such . . . [The teacher] tends to narrow his presentation . . . He cannot assume that he and the class have any common points of reference arising from voluntary reading. The result is that he is inclined to give an inferior course, lacking in depth...
...have been made recently to the press about certain Harvard teachers, the facts, at least concerning all but a miniscule fraction are clearly wholly other than these would suggest. It is true that considerable use is made of Teaching Fellow . . . but it does not necessarily follow that this means inferior teaching. I am confident there are many occasions when it means just the opposite...
...almost primitive. The Act will place natives in segregated schools run by the Native Affairs Ministry, whose avowed purpose is to teach only the "agrarian arts": soil care, cattle herding, and health. Somewhat more important is the implicit aim of teaching the native to accept his role as an inferior creature...