Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finally, the attempts to make this kind of cheating morally acceptable must be violently deplored. Much of the advertising has been directed toward this. Advertising in preparatory school papers, advertising aimed at parents, advertising about cures for maladjustment--all these try to make the business respectable. Freshmen are hard hit by a barrage of high-pressure propaganda from their day of entrance. Tutors, who now give cocktail parties, are even trying to make themselves social institutions. Their goal is to place a premium on indolence...
...always cooperated better," he said. "And in New Haven I understand Yale has been far more sympathetic toward the city's problems...
...turn toward chamber music is an interesting element of modern times, and the place of Paul Hindemith, who is playing tomorrow night in Paine Hall, is at the head of this movement. He represents a general turn from the grandiose conception of music and musicians nurtured in the romantic era. This change of attitude consists of a shift of emphasis from the idea of an artist as a man removed from the ordinary course of life by his inspiration and genius to the conception of an artist as an excellent workman--one who intends his product for use in every...
...will deny them the success of their tactics. For Harvard has accepted this cancer as a part of itself, and the tutoring schools have become integrated with the system which exists here. The moral attitude toward them has so hardened that a majority of students fell ethically justified in using them. Harvard's collective conscience has almost completely disappeared in this respect; students regularly cheat and feel no qualms about so doing. Parents condone: one tutor recently boasted that his position was impregnable since he tutored the sons of the Corporation. And, more than this, the University administration and Faculty...
...organized vice racket. It is necessary somehow to force the lids off the sewer holes, to shine the light of day on the putrefaction within. The University must be made to examine itself. For recognition of the amazing whole and its details can surely have only one result: steps toward extermination...