Word: threatening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...class. The immediate change, the development of the advisory system, is the smallest and least important item of this development. It is quite possible, however, that a greater and more expert personal interest in individual first year men will help to avoid many of the usual scholastic pitfalls that threaten at the beginning of the college career. But to accomplish any substantial reform, the entire system of instruction of the first year must be improved. When this is done, many of the glaring difficulties of the preparatory-college transition will be removed...
...lacrosse team yesterday trounced the Crimson stickmen to the tune of 7 to 0, in a game during which at no time did the Harvard players threaten to score. The Yale team scored four goals in the first six minutes of play, and three more before the contest ended...
Prosperous Iceland is just about to celebrate the 1,000th anniversary of the founding of her Althing ("The Oldest Parliament in the World"). She has weathered a fiscal crisis which seemed to threaten her banking structure, emerged sound (TIME, Feb. 17). After painful conning and concentration, King Christian X of Denmark, who is also King of Iceland, has learned enough Icelandic to read his Millennial Day speech in that tongue. Everything seemed ready, last week, for a perfect celebration which thousands of U. S. tourists will attend. Suddenly a terrific squabble and commotion was raised by Dr. Helgi Tomasson, Director...
...self-seeking and their ideals were defensible. "There has been a change . . . a distinct deterioration. "A new kind of secret or semisecret society has come into existence, whose object seems to be, by a kind of religious masonry, to procure business jobs and contracts for members, and they threaten, bully or cajole barristers, solicitors and businessmen into membership...
...Harvard Freshman baseball team continued its losing streak yesterday and dropped its fourth consecutive game, losing to the Tufts first year men by a 12 to 3 score. At no time during the game did the Harvard team threaten, while in addition to weak hitting there were nine costly errors listed for the Crimson nine...