Word: misfits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ford, 66, is Sproul's opposite-small, frail, quietly witty, a famed history scholar who favors the theoretical rather than the practical side of politics. His institution comes close to being the most enterprising State university. Five years ago its General College was a bold experiment to provide misfit students with a broad, unclassical education. Today it is widely copied...
...with the outlook of the maladjusted boy full of miscellaneous terrors, real or imagined injustices, and evils of every sort. Thousands of others, well-adjusted to their environment, never were contacted; and to get their side of the picture, to have a better basis from which to analyze the misfit, Dr. Bock inaugurated the Grant Study last fall...
Only mildly sensational were other Cabinet changes: Sir Thomas Inskip took over the relatively unimportant post of Dominions Secretary, which had been filled by Malcolm MacDonald along with his Colonial Secretaryship; unpopular William Shepherd Morrison, a misfit as Minister of Agriculture, was transferred to the post of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. A gentleman farmer, Major Sir Reginald Hugh Dorman-Smith was given...
John Marshall College handed Harvard its most brilliant tongue-lashing, through one Jim Tumulty who set up the thesis that the Harvard boys couldn't pass the entrance requirements to Laurel Hill (local haven for misfit minds) and proceeded to prove it to an appreciative audience...
Reinhardt is a perfectly familiar name around Harvard and the story behind that traditional name is soon known to every Harvard man. Reinhardt was apparently a misfit socially, even though he was a plugger academically. Harvard, and with it, Brooks House, has changed since Reinhardt's day and has become more interested in the individual student's problem and how he adjusts himself to the Harvard scene...