Word: priding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the days when President Eliot revolutionized the academic world with the elective system, Harvard has taken pride in allowing her sons to follow their own bent down the paths of learning. As a result the uniformity which a thorough grounding in the classics gave the Harvard graduate of thirty years ago has disappeared. Now Harvard turns out physicists, chemists, and social scientists, whose only common bond is the proven ability to swim 50 yards...
...worked off and on for the Herald from 1926 to 1929, and I have since watched with great interest and some pride the fortunes of those who worked with me on that spineless sheet...
Manhattan's grand, grey Metropolitan Museum used to amuse expatriate Henry James as the "so aspiring" museum of his native city. Nursed by the great fortunes and public pride of Astors, Vanderbilts, Morgans and Rockefellers, its aspirations to own ancient and Old World art have been well satisfied in the last half century. Lately the Metropolitan has turned to art at home, and since 1934 has actually bought 73 contemporary U. S. paintings. Last week, with positive enthusiasm, it performed another service...
...enough to it to keep the tutees coming back, although many of them are hard pressed for time. Second is the even more significant fact that many students, unable to find legitimate tutoring jobs, have gone to work for the tutoring schools. There they lost any personal interest and pride in their pupils. They were restricted principally to giving reviews just prior to exams to students who had by then lost any desire for real comprehension of the subject. Given a chance to consider themselves teachers rather than accomplices in the art of just getting by, the tutors will certainly...
...which the Temporary Student Employment Plan depends for its existence. Since the N.Y.A. funds are to serve the same purpose as the T.S.E. money, i.e., work-scholarships, there is no reason why the government grant cannot be used to make up part of the salaries now paid by T.S.E. "Pride goeth before the fall" and a haughty University can best serve its own ends by accepting a liberal government...