Word: rotten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Caught at the core of this rotten situation, students struggle to get into an "easy" section whose instructor gives a high percentage of A's and B's. Far too many survey courses have little check on that "easy" man or on his counterpart, the "hard" one. Marking is up to the discretion of the instructor, and since the personal equation is inevitable, rank injustice and disunity result...
...college has its isolated instances of cheating and illegitimate tutoring. But only at Harvard has this been elevated to the status of large-scale commercial enterprise. Harvard's position is unique in the collegiate scene when it comes to the high-pressure tactics, the money-magnetic propensities, the universally rotten influence of her tutors. Nowhere else do they openly exhibit their wares in the authorized student publications. Nowhere else do they presume to stuff their literature into student mail boxes for months without end, throughout the entire academic session. And nowhere else have they established themselves so securely that they...
...situation amounts to his: Harvard, proudest school in the land, pretending to preeminence in American education, is fast turning rotten inside. Her academic standards, supposedly peers of any to be found, are becoming empty and sham. The attendance of her students at Square tutoring schools is not only intellectual self-defilement; if this were true the whole business could be easily dismissed with some smug generalization about students hurting only themselves. It is not only a force which cramps the exercise of her liberal educational doctrine, freedom of the student, unlimited cuts, non-recording of attendance, and which will force...
...sailors from a German training ship were not "pelted with rotten eggs and tomatoes while goosestepping down Havana's fashionable Prado" according to footnote on p. 22 of TIME, Feb. 13. They were pelted while quietly sitting at a cafe, the Saratoga, behaving like gentlemen. I was there the entire time...
Your special remark to artikel "Panama" Feb. 13, that the german sailors was pelted with rotten eggs and tomatoes in Cuba is untrue and on insult to us Cubans. Any visitors no matter if they are American, English, German etc marines or Jewish imigrants is allways looked up with respect here...