Word: well-meant
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...Ninette but it does them little good. Their father takes up with a succession of trained nurses, asks each one to be his wife. With imperious disregard for dignity, he lets a village shyster cheat him out of the family fortune. Furious at his children's well-meant attempts to interfere, he gives orders for workmen to tear down his chateau, remodel it to suit his whims. He walks through his woods dressed in a smock painted to look like leaves, puts a green napkin over his head, sits down on a stone to make friends with the lizards...
...high old time by the way. From Serena's children (a not very attractive crowd), from Serena herself. Redfield gradually came to the terrible conclusion that she was just a scheming, selfish, salacious old wench. The End of Desire, Author Herrick's 23rd pedestrian book, is serious, well-meant, may point out to middle-aged adolescents some pitfalls of the dangerous age but will not advance the cause of U. S. letters very much...
...influential groups which fall to recognize it. Dr. Bntler's cardinal proposal, however, that the War Department be abolished in favor of a Department of National Defense, is of more doubtful value. To hide the business of war behind a euphemism while retaining its nature is at best a well-meant subterfuge. It is pleasant to think that "war between nations is as much out of date as the torture chamber or the scalping knife," but so long as such a nation as the Japanese cling to old fashioned methods, the fact will have to be faced. It is doubtful...
...front page, the CRIMSON prints today a long and sincere discussion of the crew situation at Harvard, written by a graduate and former oarsman, who hopes to precipitate an open forum on rowing at Harvard from which may come advantageous reforms. Mr. Foster's letter, however well-meant it is, is based entirely on a misconception of the part the alumnus is to play in the conduct of college affairs. Further, it assumes what the CRIMSON feels cannot rightly be assumed that rowing conditions at Harvard are at present in a state that demands reforms...
...Athletic Association expects very much from the committee it has appointed to sound out undergraduate opinion on the proposed award to all minor sport teams of a minor "H" without modifications. The H, A. A. knows that attempts to find undergraduate opinion at Harvard are generally fruitless, however well-meant they may be. It seems, therefore, that the appointment of the committee is only a device to gain time for more consideration of the proposal. The significance of the incident lies in this very move which indicates that the Association has accepted a suggestion as worthy of serious attention...