Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...operation. However, they must be made to comply to standards of the most rigorous variety which will be set for them by the University. They should be strictly limited in their functions to tutoring of a legitimate sort--legitimate here meaning aid in cases of illness and aid to slow students who have honest difficulties in their courses...
Coach Skip Stanley, who had anticipated a much better showing from his squad, found the defense slow in clearing the ball out of home territory, and the attack weak in breaking free for passes. To get a strong attack under way, Captain Hammond, who had not intended to play due to a bad nose, saw service most of the second half...
...Harvard's educational standards." The Student Council was pulling its punches when it made this statement two years ago. The same thing should have been shouted in four-letter monosyllables. Once upon a time, tutoring was understood to be a type of legitimate aid, granted to help a slow but honest student. Now, at Harvard, it is defined as a method of passing courses without working, without thinking, without learning...
...fresh from the dugout. Announcing a double play, for example, Arch is likely to report laconically: "two dead birds"; his fans know an easy fly as "a can of corn," an easy, high-hopping grounder as "Big Bill," a curve ball as "No. 2," and a slow ball as "the set of dishes." A pitcher easy for a particular batter to hit is that batter's "cousin." A hard hitter "lays the wood to it." Base runners are "ducks on the pond...
...American people's faith in education as a cure-all is misplaced. Reasons: education is 1) an institutional straitjacket, 2) too slow. "This great faith in gradualness . . . assumes what may be called the haystack theory of social problems, that is, that our culture confronts a fixed quantum of problems which are being slowly carted away by 'progress,' each load reducing the total awaiting removal. Actually, however, the culture appears to be piling up problems faster than the slow horse-and-haywagon process of liberal change through education and reform is able to dispose of them...