Word: used
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With all this game-time behind us, we should have no trouble developing a first class team if we can arrange for a practice cage of some sort and get the use of some nearby ponies--possibly from one of the local riding clubs...
Despite the idealist label attached to this program, none of the elements in it is revolutionary or unknown at Harvard. General Education courses have shown the way toward substitution of papers for examinations. Conference groups are in use here and in large numbers of other United States colleges. Group tutorial has been tried successfully in the Social Relations Department and others...
Financial considerations are always important in idealistic educational plans. To give group tutorial to all the men in a field, however, would probably cost no more than to tutor the honors candidates individually. To use conference groups half the size of the section metings of today would undoubtedly add temporary faculty members--and salaries --to the staff, but part of this expense might be equated by savings gained by dropping examinations...
...loves her work so much that for seven years, six nights a week, she has done it without pay. She finds payment enough in "the chance to use every ounce of creative energy that I have." That energy bubbles through about 50 musical skits (written by Turnabout's Forman Brown); in some of them Elsa rivals Bea Lillie at her best...
Veblen believed that modern machinery was the latest expression of this natural instinct; he concluded that refusal to use the maximum machinery was not only economically silly but downright unnatural. The machine's chief enemy, he argued, was a moss-backed array of old-fashioned institutions and traditions - and he set out to blow them apart. In his first and most fascinating book, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), he coldly scrutinized the various ways in which the successful businessman struggled to evade his debt to the very machine which had made him rich...