Word: jolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's baseball hopes for the remainder of the year were given a severe jolt yesterday when it was learned that C. L. Devens '32, veteran pitcher, was declared ineligible on account of scholastic difficulties Devens, although he had a poor start this season was the mainstay of Coach Mitchell's staff last year...
...prone to think of his creator as somewhat like Skippy's own comic-strip father. By that token, Cartoonist Percy Leo Crosby might be a tall, gentle, softspoken man with dark hair and a cropped moustache. Readers with that misconception of Cartoonist Crosby took something of a jolt last week when they saw in the New York World a full page of anti-Prohibition tirade headed: "This Space Bought by Percy Crosby Because He Believes That Any Issue, Affecting the Welfare of the Nation, Should Never Be Straddled."' Excerpts...
...There is no individual star, although occasionally the excellence of some one of them draws the warranted applause of the none too copious audience. In fact there is but a single weak point in the performance and that is the conclusion which lets one down with something of a jolt. A rapid and pleasant crescendo suddenly dwindles off into absolute nothing, but is compensated by what goes before. If you have not seen this you most certainly should at the earliest opportunity...
...matter of supplying a jolt in the transition from the school to the college is one requiring great understanding and thought. The general consensus of opinion is that the first three years of preparatory school should be devoted to a broad background which will give the student an opportunity to discover his particular abilities and at the same time provide himself with a foundation which will enable him to correlate the knowledge to be gained later. After this has been done, the last years should be given over to developing a thorough understanding of those subjects for which...
...other hand, such a practice carried to an extreme would result in disaster. To balance this jolt it is wise to have Freshmen who are acquainted with a sufficient variety of possible college subjects to make an intelligent and compatible choice of a field of concentration. Not only would this remove the danger of the jolt that Mr. Corwin advocates, but it would avoid much was to of time and harmful indecision in later years...