Word: proper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When government steps out of its "proper function" of economic regulation into economic control, it is usually a result of allegedly "temporary legislation" passed in the stress of emergency at the behest of pressure groups, Senator Millard Tydings said here tonight, in an address on "Pressure Groups in our American Democracy...
...University thinks there is a weakness in its system which leads to tutoring, it is quite right. But if it regards liberal study rules as the proper salient to be counter-attacked, it is equally wrong. There has been one reaction predominant in the college--as disclosed in letters to the Crimson and as voiced in discussion roundabout--since the publication of Tuesday's editorial. This is the attitude that, while tutoring schools are indeed vicious and overgrown, there is a reason for their existence. This reason is the worthless teaching and organization in a great number of courses...
Since William Whiting "the Widow" Nolen '84 started his Manter Hall School in 1886, the extent and influence of the tutoring schools have gradually grown. According to the Student Council report, they have "grown out of their proper place" to a degree unique in American universities...
...Tutoring schools have grown out of their proper place and are a corrosive influence on Harvard's educational standards." The Student Council was pulling its punches when it made this statement two years ago. The same thing should have been shouted in four-letter monosyllables. Once upon a time, tutoring was understood to be a type of legitimate aid, granted to help a slow but honest student. Now, at Harvard, it is defined as a method of passing courses without working, without thinking, without learning...
...Catholic diocese of Southwark, England, was At Your Ease in the Catholic Church, by Mary Perkins.* This work not only deals with manners in church but tells how to address a Cardinal, archbishop, bishop; what to give a priest or an ordinand as a present (a check is proper); when a Catholic may break rules against meat eating (example: a dinner where abstinence would embarrass the host); how a Catholic may best argue birth control, Communism, etc., with a non-Catholic. Excerpts...