Word: ordeal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time when nine-tenths of the college students of the country are feverishly preparing for the ordeal of final examinations, it hardly seems appropriate for Dr. Donald A. Laird, Association Professor of Psychology at Colgate University, to come out with the results of his latest researches in the field of insanity. Dr. Laird apparently has no scruples about publishing his gruesome findings. Without a single quiver of sympathy, he asserts that whereas only one man in fourteen hundred and one woman in eighteen hundred outside universities are subject to mental disorders, the percentage within academic walls is a great deal...
...regrets, of course, that the niggardliness of the Freshmen prevents a more pretentious festivity for the deserving Seniors. After passing through the scathing ordeal of Divisionals, the brain twisting test of Class Day applications and the unequalled humiliation of begging coins from Freshmen, the Seniors unquestionably need recreation. Some, no doubt, have sought rest and peace individually. But tonight's Celebration will include them all. It may be looked upon as a last gathering of forces before the dreaded and dreadful days of June...
Sometimes the question is asked "How can bucketing be prevented?" One way which will not stop it is light jail sentences for the guilty parties. Any rascal will willingly undergo imprisonment for a few years, with several millions "salted away" somewhere to enjoy after the short ordeal is over...
...tendency after Bicker Week is to let the whole matter drop, while admitting the evils it produces. The call is loud and clear to every undergraduate to keep the whole matter stirred up until it is settled. Princeton must never again be subjected to this revolting ordeal. And the situation will not be relieved until every man is firmly resolved that Bicker Week must go. The Daily Princetonian
...cent postage, of radio, of automobiles, of newspapers, of X-ray, of elevators, of skyscrapers and, last but not least, of golf. And at the end of it all I found him, a day or two ago, an enthusiastic and even exuberant optimist. From his severe and prolonged ordeal he emerges with faith unshaken in God and man. He left on my mind a glimpse of a man, upright in body and mind, full of good sprits, wholly unafraid of death, wholly glad to be himself. It is as an expert on happiness that President Eliot celebrates his ninetieth birthday...