Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would the student body itself suffer if the Council should disband. To most students, it is an unrepresentative body which annoys them yearly for funds, an annoyance which becomes more frequently ignored with each passing year of fruitless debate. Students do not attend its forums on scholarships, travel, or the National Student Association--that troublesome organization about which the loudest Council debate always settles. Furthermore, students have little interest in what the Council is doing: revisions of its own procedure in meetings and elections often bring the feeling that the Council might well revise itself out of existence and bring...
...always fashionable to say that Greek and Roman literature "suffer in translation," but surely the nuances of meaning if not the beauties of the language itself are sufficiently captured in a good translation supplemented by explication for all but the concentrator in the field. Yet Harvard lacks a comprehensive course in the classics in translation. A number of courses offer a taste of the classics but none offers an integrated picture of classical culture and civilization...
...misunderstood by certain professional educators, whose influence exceeded their wisdom, to mean that the end of the educational process is the adjustment of our youngsters to their environment with no particular concern or activity on their part. For example, grades were eliminated so that the young person might not suffer the frustration of feeling inferior to others . . . This enormous sensitivity and tenderness for the sense of security and adaptation of the child is a frightful travesty upon Dewey's thinking. His was a rigorous mind...
...this estimate of their views and said that there was a tendency to feel that they could not get their degree in the three-year period proposed by Elder. Another view voiced was that the degree should not be made easier for future students, who, it was implied, should suffer as their predecessors...
...Bavarian party followers rushed to Adenauer to suggest that Schäffer could be mollified if he was offered the Justice Ministry. Within minutes, Adenauer scratched off his first choice as Justice Minister, put down Schäffer's name instead. "Oh, how they make me suffer," he sighed...