Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dean Hanford's article, however, contains one sentence that far outweighs any of the statistics, evils, and benefits associated with the Reading Period. "Although the students in general seem to have profited from the Reading Period," writes Dean Hanford, "the greatest good was perhaps derived by the honor men and those with a high C average." In one sentence he points indirectly to the chasm within the ranks of students not only in Harvard College but in every university and college in the country, that is, the widening of the gulf which separates the A and B and high...
...Reading Period has proved this truth. It is the A, B and high C men who employed it to the best advantage; on the other hand, the undergraduates who cling to the lower half of the grade hierarchy seem not to have appreciated the experiment...
...cities on the route, prospects were good for a cleanup, but Mr. Pyle counted too much on human capabilities. So far less than half the runners are left with the borders of Arizona yet to be crossed, and the chances of any of them reaching the goal seem much reduced. The magic of the dollar sign does not always suffice to secure freedom from anxiety, and the harried amateur officials may be encouraged by the news that their rivals have troubles...
...Such polls as that which the CRIMSON has undertaken seem to be the only way of focusing public opinion...
True, Kit Carson is pretty well debunked by the present writer, but this would seem to be the result of the unwise writing of his predecessors, the dime novelists, and to some extent of his contemporaries, the scenario writers. These, together with the professional bravadoes who belonged to the Wild West rather than to the Old West, have made Carson, a very simple, almost meek man, into an entirely impossible character...