Word: maze
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...order; after a day of handling, however, they are reduced to woeful complexity. Only those courses ending at the midyear are guaranteed the safe haven of being bound in book form. The others, the whole courses, are destined to lurk unseen or at any rate unfond in a maze of un-alphabetized sheets...
...hampered by violent snow storms, accompanied by dangerous winds. Snow fell almost continually during the ascent. Had it not been for the precaution of planting stakes along the trail the members of the expedition might well have experienced the death they faced on many occasions in the confusing maze of ice fields...
...culling their material from the files of university and college publications all over the nation would appear to prove that college with is also American win. The scope of Humor is sufficiently broad to include more than one type. If the younger generation is guiding the older through the maze of comedy it is doing it in a finished if unconventional manner...
...same period the press immediately runs scareheads to the effect that "Women Are Getting Better, Men Worse". Thus the female of the species is given a chance to demonstrate, paper in hand, to her husband that there are two sides to the argument concerning male superiority. Baffled by the maze of figures, the only refuge for the criminal male is silence...
...eradicated by closer contact between English and American tutors. Unless these men here learn the subtle refinements of what must be considered a worthy calling they are so many drudges driving bored students through what is, at best, a gray corridor hung with factual etchings, at worst, an Elizabethan maze, made of barbed wire. The tutorial system is as good as its tutors. And when the tutors become sufficiently interested, in and faithful to tutoring as a creditable and worthy life work instead of a temporary means of paying term bills while a graduate student, then the Harvard tutorial system...