Word: longingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clarify its stand by stating the practical objectives of its campaign. Obviously no proposals for reform can be directed at the tutoring parlors themselves; for spiders do not refuse flies. Nor can any requests to shun the schools be directed at the students; for they will attend so long as the Square establishments offer an easy out. It remains for the University to take action...
...solution to the problem comes under two heads. The first of these is the long-run, permanent solution. Sometime in the near future, Harvard must institute detailed supervision of tutoring schools. These may still remain under private ownership and operation. However, they must be made to comply to standards of the most rigorous variety which will be set for them by the University. They should be strictly limited in their functions to tutoring of a legitimate sort--legitimate here meaning aid in cases of illness and aid to slow students who have honest difficulties in their courses...
...Derhams are three, all sons of the late Joseph J. Derham, a wheelwright and carriage maker who came from Ireland and set himself up on Philadelphia's swank Main Line in 1887 to build victorias, broughams, phaetons and surreys for the Drexels, Pauls and Cassatts. Before long the automobile began to cut into the carriage maker's business. After a haughty but futile effort to ignore the new invention, Joseph J. Derham gave in and adjusted his trade to the times...
...modern highway follows the historic roads to Oregon all the way. The wagon trains of a century ago ranged over the valleys to get out of ruts and dust; in some places the Oregon Trail was 20 miles wide. But US 30, following the long curves on the north bank of the Platte River across Nebraska, climbing on its oiled roadbed to cross the Laramie Mountains of Wyoming, swinging north past the ghost towns and hot springs of Idaho, most nearly follows the route of the greatest mass migration in U. S. history: almost every mile...
...people for carving their names on rocks and monuments, as if determined to leave some mark on the face of their enormous country; violent but good-natured, naive but shrewd, poetic without knowing it, unintimidated by distance and too engrossed in their struggles with nature to bear grudges for long. And at the end of the 2,000-mile road they can understand William Clark's elation when he wrote, at the mouth of the Columbia: "Ocian in view...