Word: thumb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your surprise when you look the exam over you find that answering the question is supposed to take you half an hour. The problem is what to do with the time left over. If you solve that you have the Harvard examination system right under your thumb...
Elinor Norton is a poor little rich girl of the pre-War period. Her mother's plans for her do not include marriage to Carroll, summer neighbor who tells the story. Carroll is always in love with Elinor, but she is too much under her mother's thumb to feel affection for anybody. When her mother arranges a match with Socialite Lloyd Norton, it goes through as planned. Elinor and Carroll, moving in different social worlds, drift apart. After the War he meets her again, sees that her marriage is a failure. Lloyd has become an impotent neurotic...
Another candidate would in theory be chosen by an "Assembly of Electors" who would also be largely under the President's thumb. If they picked the same candidate as the President, no election would be held, the outgoing President's choice simply succeeding him as President...
Then you suggest that that academic credit should not be given for Military or Naval Science because they are "trade courses" and not liberal arts. Then what in thunder do you mean by "liberal" when, if you thumb through the University catalogue, you will find listed courses on "Musicology," "Weather-forecasting," "Aesthetics," "Sensation," "Accounting," and three on "Sanitary Engineering." You will also find, near the top of the list of academic seniority, a "Professor of Syphills, Emeritus...
...cyclists in the Sophomore Class, and all the hoboes among the Freshmen, Five Seniors were found who will travel by boat, two Sophomore roommates in Winthrop House who said they would bicycle their way home, and two Freshmen who were going to their native village "on the thumb." For some reason the Junior Class seems to be the most orthodox. Only three of its members were found who will go home by ship, and none who would either hitch-hike or ride their bicycles...