Word: sake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reflection on the intellectual courage of those who manage Harvard University. For the premises upon which the Tutorial system was originally founded leave no room for this notion of subordination. Those premises are essentially this; that the University had fostered too long the acquisition of knowledge for credit's sake, that ideally the University should encourage real intellectual interests. To date, the tutorial system has been a systematically discouraged attempt to attain the ideal. It has been hedged on every side by an old and tenacious order, by an unrepentant and deep rooted course system. And yet, even under these...
...with unique formulas which in some magic fashion tie themselves up with simplified and inverted and mangled sentences may gloat over the course. For the average person the April Moon will compete heavily with logic for interest. Application is apt to bring an A; indifference is apt (for the sake of circumlocution) to bring trouble...
...grades. The CRIMSON believes that any system of grading and examining is entirely alien to the spirit and purpose of tutorial work. The tutorial system was set up in the belief that coercion and tangible reward were unnecessary, and that there was such a thing as study for the sake of knowledge alone. Any retreat to systems of grades and examinations is a tacit admission of defeat in this high purpose. Before that admission is made, a more restricted system of tutorial work ought to be tried...
...sufficiently to life to give DCL legal pause in assigning this agency afresh. Observers waited to see whether the Gordon prize would fall to the General Foods crowd, led by its hustling Chairman Edward F. ("Ed") Hutton and Thomas L. Chadbourne, or to National Distillers for whom, for the sake of his insurance business, James Roosevelt was doing some discreet wangling, including a visit at the White House with his father for the bigwigs...
...premium. Other sports will follow during the year, each University holding league House and College tournaments and matching its winning team against the other's. It is an interesting innovation -- filled with possibilities not only for more competition between the two universities, but sport for sport's sake, which after all is what American undergraduate athletics should stand for. --Yale Alumni Weekly...