Word: loafed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...minds what they wanted to study, or those who would rather read novels than trace historical tendencies or spend their afternoon in a laboratory in other words, the larger part of the men who are concentrating in English a chance to browse is practically synonymous with a chance to loaf. But for the "constraining effect of divisional examinations" they would never attempt what little reading they do, and English, as a field of concentration would be of even less benefit than...
...successor chosen, Dr. Goodnow will "loaf for a while"; in May will represent Johns Hopkins in England at the three hundredth anniversary of Harvey's discovery that blood circulates; will probably ride around the Mediterranean...
...Goldtooth" Mahoney, town em- ploye)?"He did me dirt. He can loaf somewhere else...
During the two or three weeks before examinations one can loaf or cram probably a little of both. It is true there is work assigned for courses and other work for the tutors. However, if I am not mistaken, the purpose of this freedom is to encourage individual study. It may attempt to produce scholars...
Harvard students now trooping back to Cambridge will find themselves turned loose for the next two and a half weeks, free to read and think and discuss and even to loaf if they think they can get away with it. The faculty is trying the experiment of suspending all classes and most of the lectures between the holidays and midyears. Except for laboratory work and conferences the student's time is his own. The use he makes of it presumably will be shown up by the exams. The idea is that education is too much time-tabled, and that young...