Word: thankless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Political activity in a college is at best a thankless pursuit, and it is made so by the indifference of the students. It is very disheartening to hear people announce that they will support Hoover "because it is a bad plan 'to swap horses in the middle of the stream", or that they will vote for Roosevelt "because he is a Democrat and we need a change", or that Thomas is to receive their support "because neither of the other men is any good anyway". Another typical student attitude is that politics are dishonest and are no place...
...also interested in your statement (in the same leader) that "the aim of education becomes more professional and less cultural" and that "fighting the spirit of the times is a vain and thankless task" which those in control of Harvard College ought not to undertake. This is very interesting. One has heard before, for sometime, that Harvard has sold out to the spirit of the times and gone in for "professional objectives" rather than "cultural ones." Dr. Flexner said something like that, and Dr. A. J. Nock, in their late internationally read books. I have heard it intimated in Oxford...
...Harvard Faculty, far from "swimming with the tide," as the author has put it, has provided a competent officer to give religious advice to all those who need it. In doing no more it has acted wisely. Fighting the conditions and spirit of the times is a vain and thankless task. To push the issue as far as Professor Bell suggests would certain be inadvisable, and might work irreparable harm...
...doorstep of the director alone. A capable group of actors struggles manfully through an unconvincing, poorly motivated, carelessly photographed production. But the effort is vain: Dietrich remains the beautiful woman who has yet to prove her histrionic talent; Herbert Marshall, able English stage veteran, grinds out an unsympathetic thankless supporting role; Dickie Moore unfortunately remains Dickie Moore; and only to Cary Grant may credit be given for breaking the Teutonic spell of wooden, unimaginative direction...
...nine active members include three college graduates. For six years Oregon University's president has been Dr. Arnold Bennett Hall, a true scholar, onetime University of Wisconsin professor of political science. Dr. Hall has complained that his institution has received less money than Oregon State. Calling his a thankless job, Oregonians say that he was induced to take it after a dozen other educators declined...