Word: resulting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...possible result of this study might be voluntary tutorials or seminars for Freshmen, Franklin L. Ford, associate professor of History, said yesterday. Ford stressed the fact that Freshmen have little contact with Faculty members...
Both the heavies and lightweights were forced to cancel two-thirds of the normal number of days spent on the river before vacation. The result of the late winter ice, the fifteen extra days in the tank have set the crews two weeks behind the majority of their opponents...
...perhaps unfair to choose from Henry Adams' catalogue of the ills of Harvard College the only significant one that remains, 101 years after his commencement. A mere perusal of local "representative" organizations shows, however, that Harvard students are still unable to choose "representative" representatives, and partly as a result of this, the value of "personal or official standards" is still not set as high as Adams or his modern heirs would wish...
This attitude is similar, and perhaps a result of, a third possible cause of the problem: the generally laissez-faire attitude of the Faculty and the administration. Harvard is uniquely fortunate in having an enlightened administration which believes that a part of education as important as formal instruction is the teaching of the student to plan and regulate his own life. The freedom of publications and other organizations to print and say whatever they wish and, within certain minimal boundaries, do whatever they wish is found at few other colleges. It forces upon the Harvard undergraduate a degree of maturity...
...loves develop in counterpoint while the mayor blusters and blows his nose, the Justice strives to look official, the mother chatters and the Chaplain wanders about with a violin (his "better half") and casts forth wisdom to unlistening ears. Since all this is done with remarkable finesse the result is laughter...