Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Several attitudes are possible towards this ironic benediction. One may remark, with an air of indifference, that such a "broadening" charitable phrase is not necessary in the Yard, or one may point out the obvious fact, which is that such students as go out for broadening should do it in their spare time: but the vital fact is one which Mr. Johnson has overlooked. The trend is not towards more interest in "activities", but to a more moderate use of them; the times have changed...
...deep a hue to be dissolved by any pigment, whether it be red or merely a rosy pink. So until New England has forgotten the strain of her ancestors, the persecutors of Hester Prynne, she will continue to confuse issues and to forget, the phrase on the cacutcheon--"Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense...
...weekly or fortnightly quiz, given for the purpose of keeping the student on the job, as it actually works in most cases, fosters pernicious methods of study. The students do what is expressed by a very familiar phrase, "cram up for the quiz and forget it." They read up the chapters assigned the night before the quiz. There is no time for taking notes. They go to the section meeting remembering words, phrases, and paragraphs-mere print-and spit out all those which seem to have any application to the questions, with a sensation of relief at being...
...ethics of Jesus are the fragmentary ethics of a defeated intellect, the exhortation of a noble man perplexed by the concrete discordance of a 'pain-economy'--to borrow Professor Patten's graphic phrase...
Dartmouth men might use dancing for training--heavy college, much athletic and lots of space--"heavy bim," to use the slang phrase. But the college girls give the prize to the M. A. C. boys. They have more chance than Tech men have, and more co-eds to practise on. --The Springfield News...