Word: joy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fifteen thousand Nazis who have slaved for more than a year in the Saar were promised last week free cruises and other rest junkets by the Hitler movement called "Strength Through Joy." Over the air and in German papers appeared hospitable orders, "Invite a Saarlander to come and visit you! Give him free board and lodging. Make him happy...
...which deserves the greatest emphasis is the first. All education that is worthy of the name is self-education, and the youth who has been brought to the point where he is able and willing to take his studies into his own hands and push them forward with the joy of an intellectual explorer, without needing to be prodded by the inexorable requirement of courses and examinations, has received the greatest benefit which Harvard can bestow on him. One learns, however, in talking with tutors, that many students can never be brought to this point. The fact need occasion...
...incapable of or uninterested in doing work with a tutor. When the committee says there are a large number of below average students who have not "been brought to the point where they are able to take their studies into their own hands and push them forward with the joy of an intellectual explorer," the implication may justify be made that perhaps that is a fault of some of the personnel of the system and also that perhaps the admissions office has been at fault in admitting men unprepared to participator in the fundamental educational process of the College...
Almost unable to believe their ears, long-suffering French radio listeners heard with joy last week a characteristic order from the government of tall young Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin: After Jan. 1 no more broadcasting of advertisements by any French station...
From the student viewpoint the report points out that there are a large number of lower-than-average students who have not "been brought to the point where they are able to take their studies into their own hands and push them forward with the joy of an intellectual explorer...