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Word: tended (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Emergency Relief Administration. Government students will peer behind the scenes at Washington; marine biologists will peer through glass-bottomed boats off Bermuda. While music students make a round of concerts, art students will browse through galleries or attach themselves as apprentices to artists. A few intrepid girls will tend spindles in hosiery mills. At the end of February they will all be back on their Vermont campus at the foot of Mount Anthony to tell their instructors what they learned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Field Work | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

Connecticut used to be one of the New England states, and to New Englanders it still is, but Manhattanites tend to think of it as a rustic week-end resort. To Iowa-born Phil Stong, writing of the sophisticated eccentricities of a Manhattanite smart set, Connecticut is a natural setting for their Jabberwockian gimblings. Author Stong's brilliant exaggeration has made even his native Iowa a melodramatic backdrop; with the iridescent decadence of a Westerner's East in which to dip his brush, he has outdone himself. His Week-End is a melodrama of gamily high life, told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Iowa's Connecticut | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

...graduates for a "big-time" football team, I cannot permit to go unnoticed the following statements in the editorial in yesterday's paper. It states: "The majority of graduates, unfortunately, retain their Harvard connection only through the football team, with the result that large endowment funds and winning elevens tend to go hand and hand. Even if the College believes their views wrong, it is often impolitic to disregard them." There is absolutely no support whatever for the statement that at Harvard large endowments depend on winning football teams. The Harvard endowment steadily increased absolutely as well as relatively until...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Fund In Football | 12/11/1934 | See Source »

...majority of graduates, unfortunately, retain their Harvard connection only through the football team, with the result that large endowment funds and winning elevens tend to go hand and hand. Even if the College believes their views wrong, it is often impolitic to disregard them. Yet they look back on Harvard to remember in distortion a different organization and a different set of values; they also do not realize that reflection differs from actual experience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRADUATE INSTRUSIONS | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

...this instance the CRIMSON feels that the appointment of a man such as Lou Little as head coach presents grave dangers which tend to contravene the best interests of undergraduates. Since Lou Little is a product of "Big-time" methods to maintain his reputation. We have advocated the choice of Adam Walsh as the best guard against this system and still favor his selection in the belief that he can produce a respectable, if not Rose Bowl, team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRADUATE INSTRUSIONS | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

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