Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Porter '88, who performed the operation, announced last evening that Dean Briggs was suffering no ill effects and was resting comfortably. According to Dr. Porter, the nature of Dean Briggs' illness was considered serious and he was taken to Phillips House the day before yesterday preparatory to operating. The operation, Dr. Porter said, revealed that the condition of Dean Briggs was not so serious as had been supposed...
...east end of the hall are three abrupt steps up. Beside them, in the hall's southeastern corner, once sat "Bill" Price of the Washington Star, first of all Washington newsgatherers to make a serious enterprise, under McKinley, of "covering" the President. All newsmen have long since been banished from the inner White House. Until Roosevelt's time, the President's executive offices were up the three steps, filling all second-story space over the East Room. The East Room's extra height elevates the second floor here, thus lowering the sills of the upstairs windows...
...house-plan at Harvard. If we succeed in making ourselves articulate, there may be a little we can tell our pedagogues. Upon Harvard has devolved the privilege and responsibility of blazing a trail; and every university in America awaits reports with eagerness. For there are many intensely serious problems that present themselves. How, for instance, will the men be selected to occupy the various small social units? The purpose of the plan being avowedly a social improvement over the present conditions, will this end be better attained by segregating men with one dominating interest, or shall a cross section...
...Harvard Lampoon has done it again; but this time it seems to transcend all other offenses against good taste and sense, because the present attack on Edward S. Harkness is something serious and tangible...
...proposition, as the writer clearly points out, implies that practically all instruction would be individual, since formal class meetings would be done away with. The difficulty of securing an adequate supply of instructors with the proper qualifications, something absolutely essential to the success of the system, is a serious obstacle to its materialization. Moreover, the expense herein entailed makes the possibility of its introduction on a large scale still more remote. Even putting these practical considerations aside, there is much to be said for the present day theory of education, which is based on the principle that concentrated study...