Word: sufferred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Workers are no more aimless in Harvard work than in Boston, except as undergraduates are less responsible. But they are all too aimless. It is a strange affliction of the volunteer. They all suffer from it to a greater or less degree, and are not wholly to blame. I blame the supervisors...
...entirely or not at all. The mind cannot retain the customs and religion of the past when the body is living so ardently in the present. The Indian himself is an anachronism in the twentieth century, and he must either adopt the habits and customs of the times or suffer extinction...
...afternoons, when the clouds of gasoline smoke hide all these possible objects of observation, comments and curses must be reserved for the dust and the numbers of miles to the gallon. The art of conversation, which has been lagging since the days of Emerson and Holmes, seems about to suffer an extensive mutilation...
...until he gets out of college to begin to see the thing clear and to see it whole. Probably this is the aim of our educators, although it is sadly unwise. And so what boots it anyhow to have anticipated this intellectual robustness in his Senior year? He must suffer the division of tastes and tasks. The dream of mature planning of his education must perish. He must still be the boy with punitive tasks to perform, and "divisionals" keep dividing him against himself. Thus conscience, someone has said, doth make cowards of us all: but the Senior...
...Tutorial work is supposedly recognized as necessary for success at divisional examinations; but for the majority of the undergraduates divisionals are a very remote and unthreatening hazard. What is of great and immediate importance is University Hall's record of grades. Tutorial work is therefore naturally the first to suffer when a student finds himself pressed for time, and that is always. The drowning sailor thinks of the wave which threatens to engulf him at the moment, not of one which may do so two, three, or four hours hence...