Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would like to congratulate TIME on the splendid manner in which it handled the story of the execution of Bruno Hauptmann [TIME, April 13]. It was refreshing to see that at least one periodical had the good taste to give the mere facts and leave out the superfluous details which cater to the sordid imagination of a morbid public...
Since the figures show that student table-waiting plus the regulation physical exercise is not detrimental to a man's scholastic standing, there is no reason for discontinuing the present athletic requirement, a mere one-half hour, three times a week. It is doubtful if anyone has yet flunked out of college, solely because he was compelled to do a little wholesome exercise for 90 minutes out of the 10,080 minutes in the week...
...beginning to grope uncomfortably for something more to say. Dr. Shapley came to his rescue, began to talk glibly and learnedly about ants. Said he: "When you go out of your way to step on an ant, you insult the order of Nature, for you, a mere social upstart, are jumping on a creature that perfected a social system some 30,000,000 years...
...Junior exam with an honor grade are accepted as honor candidates, and during their last year are allowed to concentrate on one period and to write a thesis. Those not so fortunate are required to pass an examination at the end of Senior year which involves only a mere detailed rehashing of the material they have already covered. It may be said that men who fail the Junior departmental are not ready to specialize, but in any event they merely drift for a year...
...been even more surprising. Yet the departmental budget has advanced in no like proportion, has, in fact, remained almost stationary. Intimately connected with many previously noted criticisms is the Department's unhappy position of financial rigidity. It is no simple task, for example, to attract brilliant assistants with a mere pittance. Neither is it easy to keep the tutorial system up to par at the same time that new lecture courses are being steadily added to the curricula, for the lecture system ranks first in importance at Harvard and there are no available funds for employing more tutors...