Word: reference
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...examination question. Confronted by the testimony of successful and flunking students alike, an impartial observer must conclude that ability to "guess what the instructor is after" plays all too great a part in the determination of one's mark. Instructors are led through long familiarity with their courses to refer to subjects in terms which even the most faithful student may not fully understand. Some even intentionally make questions indefinite with the avowed purpose of giving the student something to think about. Intuition is undoubtedly a valuable asset in the world at large; but the average undergraduate revolts...
...feel justified in assuming that what you refer to in your letter as "snobbishness" and what I call in may story "priggishness" is nothing but what form time immemorial has been known as "Harvard indifference". Can anybody seriously question that there must be something peculiar to Harvard which arouses all this vehemence? Of course there must be. It is that quality of mind which in its best is Harvard's most precious jewel and which at its worst is her least attractive characteristic. "Harvard Indifference" was a bone of contention before the Civil War', in the days when Theodore Roosevelt...
...feel justified in assuming that what you refer to in your letter as "snobbishness" and what I call in may story "priggishness" is nothing but what form time immemorial has been known as "Harvard indifference". Can anybody seriously question that there must be something peculiar to Harvard which arouses all this vehemence? Of course there must be. It is that quality of mind which in its best is Harvard's most precious jewel and which at its worst is her least attractive characteristic. "Harvard Indifference" was a bone of contention before the Civil War', in the days when Theodore Roosevelt...
Boston has three indoor athletic meet fixtures that can not be beaten the country over. I refer in particular to the B. A. A. games, the American Legion, and last, but not least, the Harvard Cornell Dartmouth triangular games in conjunction with the New England athletic championships. Also, it is a question in my mind which set of Boston games at tracted the most interest the past indoor season B. A. A. games were good. So were the Legion games. But for all round competition and interest I never saw a better set of games than the contests Saturday afternoon...
There is another point seriously open to doubt. I refer to the statement: "for in spite of government efforts, plots and bomb outrages have not diminished since the war." What are the facts on which this is based, or is it only some more speculation and inference...