Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contrary to popular opinion, most babies are not driven away from orphanages in limousines, but are carried away by couples with small incomes. Through the State Charities Aid Association in Manhattan, babies have been given to laundresses, bootblacks and laborers who have steady jobs. A letter from satisfied foster parents (humble Italians who named their boy Tony) received by that agency: "Strong in health, lovely in heart, red in the face, quiet in the life, intelligent, beautiful, it is the boy that God give...
...Unethical, undesirable, but damned useful." Human minds cannot fairly be put into pigeon-holes. Nor can their opinions on a subject like tutoring at Harvard be accurately summed up in a flashy epigram. Each student thinks differently about it, and the collective opinion is a many-tentacled monster indeed. But in five succinct words, one student did succeed in roughly synthesizing the sentiments which the majority of his fellows nurse, and which they recorded in the Crimson poll...
...this is not a blanket condemnation of tutoring in toto; there are, according to the majority opinion, a variety of cases where tutoring is a fair and ethical expedient. For the lame, the halt, and the blind, it is quite proper. The man who has been sick and the "slow but honest" student have a clear right to extra guidance. So also the extra-curricular man who values his activities more than his academics. Nor should a student be denied tutoring as a supplement to the work he has done for himself. All but the most exceptional scholars need...
...bargain. When some courses are poorly organized and others are poorly taught, when there is vastly too much reading for the average ability in still others, then outside tutoring is a necessary evil. Then it is a fruit, not a root. So says the majority opinion...
...yesterday's statement, Dean Hanford said he shared Dean Leighton's opinions expressed in the CRIMSON of April 27. The dean continued, "I am in thorough agreement with the general opinion expressed in the editorials that outside tutoring at Har- ing the pre-examination panic and rush to tutoring schools. Reviews are so important in the understanding of any course as a whole that they should be offered by the instructors themselves