Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plan either at Yale or Harvard depends eventually on its attraction for the students, it is impossible to dismiss this irreverent criticism as of little importance. It deserves analysis and the serious consideration of the authorities. One finds that it is based on the belief that the fraternities will suffer, that men of uncongenial temperament and tastes will be forced to eat and live together under the admonitory eyes of resident members of the faculty; in short, that the new dispensation will destroy the freedom as well as the landmarks of the old social system and substitute therefore something stereotyped...
...financial failure. It has also been brought to light that the Freshman Jubilee of the class of 1931 fared badly financially. All of this seems strange--that all Harvard social functions should fall. Is it because of poor management? Is it necessary that most of the class should suffer, because of the failure of certain individuals to manage affairs correctly. Or is it because an insufficient amount has been charged for those attending...
...something more than a well written blue book will welcome the occasion to turn a few hours of memory work to the discussion of topics in which they find a new source of influence. The casual student, well versed in the mechanics of organizing three hours of erudition will suffer and very justly do so, if the theses assume their proper position. But the hardworking and thinking student who finds that his greatest efforts place him among the ranks of those who cultivate gentlemanly C's will be saved from a period of pessimism concerning, college education...
...academic presses are engaged in printing and binding these gleanings. The creation of intellectual curiosity, and then of intellectual appreciation, in the minds of a few hundred pupils may be a greater thing than a rehashed Doctor's thesis, but it counts not as much. The great teacher may suffer from a prosaic style when he forsakes the classroom for the more material pen, but he publishes all the same; forced by this vicissitude of present convention...
...such as those of Emerson and Carlyle, and poems of longing and vision from Lowell, Whittler and Tennyson, together with a few of Lincoln's addresses and other inspiring writings of our modern times, to make a modern bible to add to the ancient book, and it need not suffer by the comparison...