Word: student
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lined up on Massachusetts Avenue, grinning obscenely down over Harvard Yard, there is a row of intellectual brothels. Every year they are patronized by two-thirds of the student body; every year they flout with greater insolence the decency and respectability of this college. . . . They are making a mockery of a Harvard education, a lie of a Harvard diploma...
Chief function of the tutoring schools is to prepare students for Harvard's tough written examinations (which largely determine a student's grade in most courses). Housed around Harvard Square, the tutoring schools coach students in groups or individually, cram a full course into a few tense hours, sell review notes, other crutches, charge up to $4 an hour. Where once William Whiting ("The Widow") Nolen had a monopoly of this enterprise, today nine full-fledged tutoring schools flourish in Harvard Square. The Crimson charged that some tutoring schools supplied students with ready-written term papers and theses...
Most amusing disclosure: a tutoring-school pupil last term was Caspar Griswold Bacon (Harvard '08), onetime Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts and now both a special student at Harvard and a member of Harvard College's Board of Overseers. Mr. Bacon, taking a course in American Constitutional Government, crammed at Wolff's and at midyear...
...Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa at 8:30 one morning last week, undergraduates dozing through their first class were suddenly awakened by a clamor of chapel and class bells. Soon student messengers rushed into their classrooms shouting: "War has been declared! Go to the chapel!" Five minutes later, as 600 excited undergraduates jammed into chapel, the organ played My Country, 'tis of Thee. To the platform marched the college dean, followed by an army officer...
...young men to report their names at once, be prepared for a war draft. As the collegians sat speechless, up jumped one of their number to cry: "You'll be fools to enlist!" From a hundred throats came a roar: "Yellow!" In a trice Cornell's student body was on its feet, shouting, screaming, stamping. In the midst of the uproar the leader of Cornell's swing band leaped on the platform, saxophone in hand, and began to jam. As Cornell's undergraduates realized that they had been summoned not to a real...