Word: taints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some of the mechanical details ordinarily associated with elementary courses, and to develop more literary interpretation and appreciation. By exchanging the old composition book for a new and more satisfactory volume, and by altering the outside reading system. It was hoped to remove from French 2 much of the taint which all required courses seem to possess...
...large an enterprise. Yet they are regular; they are insured by the persistent interest in football. As long as the surplus is not being used to provide athletic facilities or free blanket admissions to students, they should be used in the promotion of sports as free from professional taint as possible. During the next decade Harvard would do well to consider the possibility of erecting an indoor rink on its own premises...
Incidentally, the self-appointed critics are now free to wend their way out of the Augean stables. Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth and Radcliffe are cleansed from any taint of originality. There is no retort--except, possibly, the rather ineffectual expedient of mentioning the Eleventh Commandment, whose essence is concerned mostly with minding one's business...
...effect. Mr. Gandhi knew that as he spoke hundreds of children all over India were being married by parents frantically anxious to get their sons and daughters in under the wire. (Theory: a mature man who marries a babe, aged two, knows that the young spouse is without worldly taint...