Word: student
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard men he characterized as 'less glowing and gregarious' than Yale men. Commenting on a certain student from a standard Boston family, he said, 'He appears to be the possessor of but two adjectives, "bully" and "rotten."' When I asked him about X's Class Day oration, he answered, 'Robust commonplace.' Of a graduate who had written somewhat irresponsibly about Harvard, he observed, 'He is not a scientific person.' Of the place to which women were relegated when waiting for books in the University Library, he said, 'A pen is provided for them...
...Cambridge to affright prospective Freshmen. This year sees 170 of the class of 1933 allowed to pursue more interesting fields of knowledge, while their more unfortunate classmates are subjected to the pressure of the educational machine, which is supposed in this particular instance, to turn out the enlightened English student...
...course, the Vagabond, is first and last a student, free lance though he may be. The point today is a little change of scene. From the anthropology lecture halls and laboratories with their pieces of chipped flint out into the open. A little anthropology at first hand, a field trip, the Indian in life...
...attention of all students is called to the rule that no student may bring to an examination, without permission of the instructor, any books or papers, unless he leaves them with the proctor in charge of the examination...
...blame for the present situation seems to lie with those instructors, who, not realizing that it is often impossible for the student to take care of his assignments at once, fall to provide for the inevitable rush which occurs just before the assignment falls due. Moreover the library complains that the lists of books handed in by the instructors often arrive so late that it is impossible to get them on the shelves in time...