Word: terme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tutor was a pretty cagey move. "Guidance" is perfectly legal. "Guidance," in fact, is a brand new field in these parts, and the mere word commands respect. The University has already taken steps that will eventually lead to adequate "guidance" for all men. Mr. Wolff's misuse of the term should not give rise to the delusion that "guidance" can be carried on commercially in the Square...
Meantime, however, President Roosevelt gave no sign of disclaiming third term aspirations. In a letter to the Young Democratic clubs, Mr. Roosevelt repeated the gist of his Jackson Day ultimatum to all Democrats (TIME, Jan. 16). Said he: "No victories are won by shooting at each other. There never was and never will be a political party whose policies absolutely fit the views of all its members. Where men are at variance with the course that their party is taking, it seems to me there are only two honorable courses-to join a party that more accurately mirrors their ideas...
...tense hours, sell review notes, other crutches, charge up to $4 an hour. Where once William Whiting ("The Widow") Nolen had a monopoly of this enterprise, today nine full-fledged tutoring schools flourish in Harvard Square. The Crimson charged that some tutoring schools supplied students with ready-written term papers and theses, steered students into snap courses, "high-jacked" examination papers in advance...
Most amusing disclosure: a tutoring-school pupil last term was Caspar Griswold Bacon (Harvard '08), onetime Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts and now both a special student at Harvard and a member of Harvard College's Board of Overseers. Mr. Bacon, taking a course in American Constitutional Government, crammed at Wolff's and at midyear...
...direction of Dr. Charles 0. Hardy-found that odd-lotters are generally smart enough to buy on declines and sell on advances, but not smart enough to wait for a marked decline or a substantial advance. By buying and selling too soon, they miss the boat on long-term price trends. Other findings: > Since 1920 the average odd-lot trader has bought 106 shares, sold 100, thus accumulated six shares...