Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...activities in Harvard College have felt the numbing hand of scholarship upon them. Clear and undeniable though the advantages of an increased academic vigilance are, the undergraduate can pluck new time for study from only one place--his outside activities. It is only natural that the first interests to suffer are the altruistic, which offer neither glory of the Big-Man-in-His-Class kind, nor any other than the remuneration of experience. Phillips Brooks House is the most important activity of this kind in the University...
...Galsworthy has stated that he has written his last drama, and that henceforth his literary endeavors will be directed only to the writing of prose. If he does not change his mind, the theatre going public is certain to suffer, for the touch of an artist is seen in the writing of such a production as 'Escape", now playing at the Plymouth...
Coach H. L. Cowles is optimistic over the season's prospects. Captain B.H. Whitbeck '29 and other Juniors will be reenforced by a squad of promising Sophomores. The list of first team men does not include a Senior, which means that the team will not suffer by graduation...
...schools and the colleges. Our students come to college 'prepared', but with hardly the beginnings of an education. Contrasted with the students in English and Continental secondary schools, they must be rated, age for age, markedly inferior. There is no thoroughness or consistency in our school system. Our schools suffer from that disease that keeps them permanently enfeebled--'credititis', the itch for credits points, units, and semester hours. We are in the midst of a generation of students and teachers obsessed with the notion that organization in education means more than anything else. Educationally we are a nation of credit...
...longer withstood. The depreciation of the dollar since the beginning of the century was the cause of the increase of tuition a few years ago, but neither the class nor the number of applicants was then affected, and there is no reason to think that they will suffer from the present change, which was found necessary despite the generosity of the alumni and friends of the University...