Word: often
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...latter part of one's course is becoming more and more the defect of the Harvard system. Overzealous tutors encourage their charges to get their distribution off in their first two years--out of the way like an old shoe. Students attentive to this somewhat myopic suggestion often find themselves forgetting the excellencies outside their field just as they are acquiring the maturity to enjoy them. One of the purposes of Harvard's present system is the elimination of this sort of thing, and it is unfortunate that the Ph.D attitude occasionally mitigates its potential usefulness. Columbia's new plan...
...communication engineering. The naval officers who are studying under him will work with the the hydrophone, an instrument used for depth finding, signalling under water, and transmission of speech through the sea. The radio will be the special field of some of the men, as the primary, and often the only means of communication...
Somehow, there is an awkwardness about Mr. Wescott's style which mars the effects he strives to produce. The sentences are too involved, and far too often there is a decided incoherence. One of the stories, called "Adolescence," seems in a fair way to present certain observations on that state when it is mangled beyond hope of success by the roundabout method of presentation. Another, "Wedding March" by name, comes considerably nearer to achieving...
...thank you for your bravery, and the national service which you performed when you and you alone have dared to tell the truth as witnessed in your issue of Sept. 17 when you unreservedly say: "The popular observation is that the Nominee (Al Smith) when seen off duty, often has had, before evening enough drinks to be visibly stimulated thereby." You have given us a full page picture of what the President of the United States ought not to be. Often a sentence or a few words in your articles gives a cartoon, or cinema of a personage or event...
...scarcity of college graduates the political life of this-country has often been deplored. A situation such as this analysis shows to exist is scarcely one to encourage their interest in such matters. The fact that a man's business or studies compel him to be away from home on Election Day should not be enough to deprive him of the franchise, and the danger, from fraud is no greater when the ballot is sent by mail than when it is deposited in a box at the booths. Much progress has already been made in a steadily increasing number...