Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...placed on the professors themselves. At its best the academic profession, in proportion to the study and preparation necessary for the attainment of success in it, is the most grossly underpaid in the world. At its worst it offers only inevitable starvation; at the top of the ladder there is only a quickly reached maximum salary that would seem like a miserable pitance to a second rate lawyer. So when the chance for self betterment comes in the field the man is a fool who does not take advantage of the opportunity to remove the threat of hunger...
...stern, thin-lipped Yankee skipper of the old school, came on deck at this juncture, saw what he thought were breakers-a shoal. He mounted the bridge ladder two rungs at a time and fairly tore the glasses from my hands...
...problem lies with the present pronunciamento that the rising pedagog must publish if he hopes to climb to a worthwhile rung on the academic ladder. Whether or not the command is an intangible one, there are too many instances of the scholar's success being based wholly on the number of fly-leaves bearing his name. It has been said somewhere that the true scholar never creates; he delves into the past and criticizes. Practically all academic presses are engaged in printing and binding these gleanings. The creation of intellectual curiosity, and then of intellectual appreciation, in the minds...
...Every year there is a group of undergraduates who visualize a far off goal of supremacy where they can bask in the glow of multitudinous activities. All forms of extra-curricular work, among them the CRIMSON, have the misfortune to be included among the rungs of the ladder that leads to this Nirvana. And so this feeling grows in proportion to the number of activities that are available, and the most unfortunate part of the whole idea is that it is built on a fallacy...
...custom, the Kenilworth Castle hove to just at the moment when by the sextant of her Navigating Officer she was "crossing the Line. A gangway was lowered. In their oldest clothes hilarious passengers who had never bisected the Equator before, trooped from bar to boat deck. Up the boarding ladder came His Majesty King Neptune, shrouded in whiskers, accompanied by his Queen, his Barber, the members of his Court, all liberally smeared with burnt cork...