Word: ploddingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best, such friendly contacts are few. An ever growing number of undergraduates came to take it as part of the system that they should plod along with the numbing sense of intellectual loneliness in their hearts. To these, as well as to their more fortunate fellows, the infant tutorial system brought new hope. The promise of a new link between the students and the faculty was welcomed with enthusiasm, and though there is still much to be done to perfect the plan, in the main it is justifying itself. The personal element which Dr. Demos emphasizes as so important...
...Young's African smells, sights and sounds are indubitable. He can occasionally strike off action, too. His motivation, however, is vague, unaccountable, spasmodic. His emotions plod in circles. His temper the generous will call wholesome and dignified, others cold and muttonish...